'Chick-a-dee' calls of Carolina chickadees convey information about degree of threat posed by avian predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1447-1453

  Soard, Chad M ^a   Ritchison, Gary ^a  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alarm call; Carolina chickadee; mobbing; Poecile carolinensis; predator; threat

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; CONSPECIFIC; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MOBBING; PASSERINE; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; RISK PERCEPTION;

KENTUCKY; MADISON COUNTY [KENTUCKY]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BUTEO JAMAICENSIS; MEGASCOPS ASIO; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS CAROLINENSIS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 70649099115     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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