Noise annoys: Effects of noise on breeding great tits depend on personality but not on noise characteristics

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 949-956

  Naguib, Marc ^a,b   van Oers, Kees ^b   Braakhuis, Annika ^b   Griffioen, Maaike ^a   de Goede, Piet ^b   Waas, Joseph R ^b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Anthropogenic disturbance; Begging; Great tit; Noise; Parental care; Parus major

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BREEDING POPULATION; DISTURBANCE; NEST BOX; NOISE; PARENTAL CARE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84877605525     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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