University of Michigan study finds noise harms birds' health in many ways, including their ability to reproduce ...

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also found that developing animals, including embryos ...

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, reveals new research. Scientists played recordings of predator ...

Survival in the wild usually comes with a steep learning curve. For young birds, that curve can be especially brutal. If you ...

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, new research shows. Scientists played recordings of predator ...

Great tit chicks, for example, stop begging in response to a parent’s alarm call. And a study of blackcaps found that under very high predation pressure chicks completely refrain from chirping until ...

Young jackdaw chicks can learn about predators before leaving the nest by listening to alarm calls from adult birds.

Of nine different behavioral or fitness-related responses in 160 bird species examined, noise pollution had negative impacts ...

Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...