PREDATION RISK ASSOCIATED WITH GROUP SINGING IN A NEOTROPICAL WOOD-QUAIL

Abstract Decades of fruitful research on the study of vocal communication in birds have provided surprisingly little evidence of a predation cost associated with singing. In this paper, I report the first observational evidence of a risk of predation associated with chorusing in a Neotropical wood-quail. Black-breasted Wood-Quail (Odontophorus leucolaemus) live in groups year-round and produce coordinated group choruses or duets. Three mammalian and two avian species of predators were attracted to playbacks of recorded wood-quail choruses that I used during population surveys and capture attempts from March to August, 2000–2002. The trade-off between signaling and predation risk may be an important force in the evolution of chorusing in New World quails.

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2004-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1676/04-015
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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