Ravens respond to unfamiliar corvid alarm calls
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-020-01781-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-020-01781-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01781-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10336-020-01781-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ravens respond to unfamiliar corvid alarm calls
Original language description
Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls is a crucial source of information for many species (including corvids) and it is effective especially if these species form mixed-species flocks, have a similar spectrum of predators, and share habitat. Previous research on wild common ravens (Corvus corax) has shown that they react to the jackdaws' alarm call. We tested their responses to the heterospecific alarm calls of various bird species differing in familiarity and taxonomical relatedness to ravens. Two other corvid species (the blue jay Cyanocitta cristata and the European jay Garrulus glandarius) and two non-corvids (the black-headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus and the laughing gull Leucophaeus atricilla) were presented. We played back the tested alarm calls to free-ranging ravens at a feeding site and observed the ravens' responses to particular stimuli. We observed three behavioural responses made by the tested ravens: flying away, freezing (ceasing to move and crouching on the ground), and vigilance (observing the surroundings). The ravens responded to the Eurasian jay alarm call by freezing and flying away and to the blue jay alarm call by freezing and vigilance. The laughing gull alarm call induced mostly vigilance and the black-headed gull alarm call did not elicit any reaction. The responses to the alarm calls of both jays were similar to the responses to the playbacks of conspecific alarm calls, used as control (as well as to the response to a jackdaw alarm call from the previous study), which may point to the existence of a specific corvid characteristic in their alarm calls. The response to the alarm calls of both American species included vigilance, which suggests an uncertainty about the meaning of the call.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10615 - Ornithology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Ornithology
ISSN
2193-7192
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
161
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
967-975
UT code for WoS article
000530218000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085093535