… a flee response to the alarm call. These … alarm call, the need to undertake costly fleeing
behaviour can be avoided. Either way, our study indicates the potential for anthropogenic noise …

… that anthropogenic noise can impact alarm-call production, … are affected by anthropogenic
noise has not previously … how anthropogenic noise affects responses to surveillance calls …

… indicate that typical traffic noise 20 m away completely masks tit alarm calls, but noise levels
… Even when anthropogenic noise does not completely mask these anti-predator signals, it is …

… with one another through begging or alarm calls or advertisement song (Catchpole & Slater,
… We may therefore expect that masking of important song components by noise will have …

… To determine whether oil and gas infrastructure noise interfered with responses to alarm
calls, we conducted the same experimental protocol on sites containing active, …

… by anthropogenic noise. The costs of masking should be particularly high for vocalizations
important for survival (eg alarm calls), but few studies have investigated how such calls are …

… noise disrupted the response to conspecific alarm calls in … We first examined the birds'
response to alarm-call playbacks … The effect of anthropogenic noise could therefore depend on …

… may be detrimental to birds through direct stress, masking of predator arrival or associated
alarm calls, and by interference of acoustic signals in general. Two of the most important …

… Communication calls, or spectral components of these calls, may also have low-frequency …
are similar across anthropogenic and natural noise, anthropogenic noise has become much …

… Masking of alarm signals by anthropogenic noise might therefore have a particularly … alarm
calls because Noisy miners frequently encounter dogs in urban environments and alarm call …