Anatomy of avian distress calls: Structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii) Miller, EH, Kostoglou, Kristal, Wilson, DR and Weston, Mike 2022, Anatomy of avian distress calls: Structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii), Behaviour, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 1-35, doi: 10.1163/1568539X-bja10147. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Anatomy of avian distress calls: Structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii) Author(s) Miller, EH Kostoglou, Kristal orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-9059 Wilson, DR Weston, Mike orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0410 Journal name Behaviour Volume number 153 Issue number 3 Start page 1 End page 35 Total pages 35 Publisher Brill Publication date 2022-01-01 ISSN 0005-7959 1568-539X Summary Abstract Birds often vocalize when threatened or captured by a predator. We present detailed qualitative analyses of calls from 24 red-capped plover (Charadrius ruficapillus) and 117 masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) chicks (Charadriidae) that we recorded during handling. Calls were structurally complex and differed between species. Calls showed moderate structure at higher levels of organization (e.g., similarity between successive calls; sequential grading). Some call characteristics resembled those in other bird species in similar circumstances (e.g., in nonlinear phenomena). Most calls consisted of several different parts, which combined in different ways across calls. Past studies have overlooked most features of distress calls and calling in charadriids due to small sample sizes and limited spectrographic analyses. Understanding interspecific patterns in call structure, and determination of call functions, will require: detailed knowledge of natural history; detailed behavioural descriptions, acoustic analysis, and analyses of development and growth; and experimental investigations of call functions. DOI 10.1163/1568539X-bja10147 Field of Research 0602 Ecology 0603 Evolutionary Biology 0608 Zoology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30162368 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 07:30:58 EST Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 15:28:45 EST Tue, 15 Feb 2022, 15:16:19 EST Tue, 15 Feb 2022, 16:01:16 EST Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 15:35:50 EST Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 15:37:06 EST Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 15:43:52 EST Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 15:39:13 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 14 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 15 Feb 2022, 15:16:19 EST