Flights of fear: A mechanical wing whistle sounds the alarm in a flocking bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4173-4179

  Hingee, Mae ^a   Magrath, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Alarm signal; Grouping; Index signal; Signal reliability; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ALARM SIGNAL; BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLIGHT; NOISE; PREDATOR; VIGILANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEATHER; HAZARD; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WING WHISTLE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GEOPHAPS LOPHOTES; OCYPHAPS LOPHOTES;

EID: 72849140989     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1110     Document Type: Article

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