Traffic Noise Impacts Timid Female Bluebirds
Kenny HV, Cristol DA, Swaddle JP. Traffic Noise Impacts Timid Female Bluebirds. Research Permit and Reporting System
We asked whether anthropogenic noise and animal personality interact to influence the settlement patterns and parental behaviors of individual eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) in a suburban landscape. We found that female aggression behavior mediated settlement patterns and parental care behavior when we exposed bluebirds to experimental traffic noise. Female bluebirds with high aggression tended to settle in quiet areas, and these females increased nestling feeding rate when exposed to noise.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Kenny, Heather; Cristol, Daniel; Swaddle, John
- Publisher
- Research Permit and Reporting System
- Units
- COLP