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List of works by Robert D Magrath

A micro-geography of fear: learning to eavesdrop on alarm calls of neighbouring heterospecifics

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

A mutual understanding? Interspecific responses by birds to each other's aerial alarm calls

scientific article published in 2007

A songbird mimics different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of threat

scientific article published in 2014

Adaptive differences in response to two types of parental alarm call in altricial nestlings

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Alarming features: birds use specific acoustic properties to identify heterospecific alarm calls.

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Avian vocal mimicry: a unified conceptual framework.

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Begging to differ: scrubwren nestlings beg to alarm calls and vocalize when parents are absent

Birds Learn Socially to Recognize Heterospecific Alarm Calls by Acoustic Association

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Birds orient their heads appropriately in response to functionally referential alarm calls of heterospecifics

scientific article

Breaking the rules: sex roles and genetic mating system of the pheasant coucal ⬇️

scientific article published on May 10, 2011

Bright birds are cautious: seasonally conspicuous plumage prompts risk avoidance by male superb fairy-wrens.

scientific article published in June 2017

Calling at a cost: elevated nestling calling attracts predators to active nests

scientific article

Correction to 'Deceptive vocal duets and multi-modal display in a songbird'.

scientific article

Crying wolf to a predator: deceptive vocal mimicry by a bird protecting young

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2015)

Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex avian display

scientific article

Deceptive vocal duets and multimodal display in a songbird

scientific article published in October 2017

Differential geographic patterns in song components of male Albert's lyrebirds

scientific article

Discriminating between similar alarm calls of contrasting function

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Does signal deterioration compromise eavesdropping on other species' alarm calls?

Eavesdropping magpies respond to the number of heterospecifics giving alarm calls but not the number of species calling

scientific article published in February 2019

Eavesdropping on heterospecific alarm calls: from mechanisms to consequences

scientific article

Eavesdropping on other species: mutual interspecific understanding of urgency information in avian alarm calls

Eavesdropping on the neighbours: fledglings learn to respond to heterospecific alarm calls

Fidelity of vocal mimicry: identification and accuracy of mimicry of heterospecific alarm calls by the brown thornbill

Flights of fear: a mechanical wing whistle sounds the alarm in a flocking bird

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

From nestling calls to fledgling silence: adaptive timing of change in response to aerial alarm calls

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Functionally referential alarm calls in noisy miners communicate about predator behaviour

scientific article

Habituation under natural conditions: model predators are distinguished by approach direction

scientific article published in December 2011

Hatching asynchrony and reproductive success in the blackbird

scientific article published in Nature

Higher-order sequences of vocal mimicry performed by male Albert's lyrebirds are socially transmitted and enhance acoustic contrast

scientific article published in 2022

How to be fed but not eaten: nestling responses to parental food calls and the sound of a predator's footsteps

article

Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure.

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

Lack of alarm calls in a gregarious bird: models and videos of predators prompt alarm responses but no alarm calls by zebra finches

scientific article published in 2017

Learning to listen? Nestling response to heterospecific alarm calls

Parental alarm calls suppress nestling vocalization

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Personal information about danger trumps social information from avian alarm calls

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Phylogeny and evolution of the Meliphagoidea, the largest radiation of Australasian songbirds

scientific article

Recognition of other species' aerial alarm calls: speaking the same language or learning another?

scientific article published in February 2009

Sound familiar? Acoustic similarity provokes responses to unfamiliar heterospecific alarm calls

scientific article published in 2011

Sounds of Modified Flight Feathers Reliably Signal Danger in a Pigeon

scientific article published on 4 November 2017

Speedy revelations: how alarm calls can convey rapid, reliable information about urgent danger

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Temporal coordination signals coalition quality

article

The evolution of cooperative and pair breeding in thornbills Acanthiza (Pardalotidae)

scientific article (publication date: May 2000)

To call or not to call: parents assess the vulnerability of their young before warning them about predators.

scientific article

Visual obstruction, but not moderate traffic noise, increases reliance on heterospecific alarm calls

scientific article published in 2021

Why does noise reduce response to alarm calls? Experimental assessment of masking, distraction and greater vigilance in wild birds

scientific article published on 9 April 2019

Wild birds learn to eavesdrop on heterospecific alarm calls.

scientific article

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