vocal activity Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Can you hear me now?

By Ashleigh Marshall|2025-04-16T19:42:50+00:0010 Apr 2025|acoustic niche partitioning, acoustic space, Cuckoos, forest birds, nature reserve, subtropical, vocal activity, vocalisations|

Seven sympatric cuckoo species minimally mask each other’s signals due to acoustic niche partitioning

Call of the wild: Vocal flexibility in response to urban noise

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-03-21T01:55:45+00:0021 Mar 2024|bioacoustics, call repertoire, flexibility, noise, Urban birds, vocal activity|

Evidence of spectral and temporal call flexibility in House Finches

Sounds like an owl battle

By Fabrizio Grieco|2021-07-30T15:27:51+00:002 Aug 2021|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bioacoustics, communication, nocturnal birds, territoriality, vocal activity|

Study reveals new insights about how group-living Scops Owls communicate

The sound of birds in a world of noise

By Hannah Vincelette|2021-02-12T10:58:33+00:0018 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, bird song, Disturbance, noise, noise pollution, protected areas, vocal activity|

Acoustic monitoring enlightens aircraft noise impacts on remote bird communities

Songbirds with similar migrations produce similar calls

By Zach G. Gayk|2021-02-02T09:27:52+00:004 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, communication, flight, Migration, song, vocal activity|

Researchers investigate the evolution of wood warbler flight calls

Quiet please, I need to sing

By Roselvy Juárez|2020-10-06T09:25:42+00:0022 Jun 2020|noise, song, Urban birds, vocal activity, vocalisations, vocalizations|

House Wrens reduce repertoire size in noisy sites

Spontaneous vocal activity of Tawny Owls

By Iñigo Zuberogoitia|2020-12-15T17:26:58+00:0012 Aug 2019|nocturnal birds, survey, vocal activity|

Tawny Owls are calling, but are we detecting all of them?