The visual fields of two ground-foraging birds, House Finches and House Sparrows, allow for simultaneous foraging and anti-predator vigilance

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 779-787

  Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^a   Gall, Megan D ^a   Dolan, Tracy ^a   Tisdale, Vanessa ^a   Martin, Graham R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Carpodacus mexicanus; Lateral vision; Mutual exclusivity assumption; Orbit orientation; Passer domesticus; Predation risk; Scanning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; SKULL; VIGILANCE; VISION;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 52649169684     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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