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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"great tits"”.
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A comparative analysis of auditory perception in songbirds: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) and great tits (Parus major)
… Eurasian jay (*Garrulus glandarius*) and great tit (*Parus major*). Chapters 2-5 utilise several different auditory paradigms in Eurasian jays, focusing on caching, reasoning and recognition. Chapter 2 replicates an experiment to test whether jays conceal auditory information as a cache …
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A curate's egg: feeding birds during reproduction is 'good in parts'. A study of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus and great tits Parus major
… and mealworms \(Tenebrio\) \( molitor\) to blue tits \(Cyanistes\) \(caeruleus\) and great tits \(Parus\) \(major\) breeding in woodland in central England from 2006 to 2008. Supplementation advanced laying and reduced the number of young fledged significantly in both species, but provisioning …
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Predators vs. Prey: The information ecology of warning signals
… and help resolve this puzzle. Here I use great tits and blue tits as model predators to investigate what influences predators’ decisions to use different types of information when encountering novel prey, how information use varies across predator species, and whether this can operate in a …
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From nest building to life-history patterns: does food supplementation influence reproductive behaviour of birds?
… cake and mealworms [Tenebrio molitor]) to Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tits (Parus major) breeding in a woodland in Central England from 2007 to 2009. Supplementary feeding significantly advanced nest construction and decreased brood provisioning rates for both species. Supplemented …
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The role of social environment in shaping vocal communication systems in wild songbirds
… communication in a wild population of blue tits and great tits in order to investigate the effects of social environment on birds’ responses to acoustic cues as well as their production of acoustic signals. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate that blue tits can learn to associate a novel acoustic …
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Are droneflies batesian mimics of honeybees?
… to be birds. It was found that dunnocks, robins, great tits and coal tits discriminate in their prey choice when offered dead droneflies and honeybees along with other flies. However, only dunnocks avoided both models and mimics but ate the other insects. More research is needed to fully establish …