{"id":4810,"date":"2016-05-16T23:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T03:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2016-05-16T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T03:51:33","slug":"tweet-louder-i-cant-hear-you-highway-noise-disrupts-information-transfer-between-bird-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tweet-louder-i-cant-hear-you-highway-noise-disrupts-information-transfer-between-bird-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet louder,  I can\u2019t hear you: Highway noise disrupts information transfer between bird species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4811\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4811\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13651558763_9cefe51f8e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Image by John Flannery via Flickr CC2.0\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13651558763_9cefe51f8e_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13651558763_9cefe51f8e_z-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tufted titmouse, such as the ones analyzed in this study. <em>(Image by John Flannery <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/mNkNNP\">via Flickr CC2.0<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication between birds is disrupted near major roadways, where the noise levels are unnaturally high. According to new research from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, this avian communication breakdown may help explain the pattern of reduced biodiversity near highways. Authors of the new study were curious about how building homes in an urban environment affected the life of various bird species, such as northern cardinals and tufted titmice. Researchers played Titmouse alarm calls to Cardinals in natural areas near and far from highways. In quieter areas, Cardinals were seen engaging in anti-predator behaviours\u00a0in response to the alarm calls. However, closer to the highways, the birds failed to respond to the alarm calls. These communication networks are vital to the northern cardinals, which may explain\u00a0their reduced numbers near busy highways.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highwire-citation-author first has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"0\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Aaron M.<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Grade<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"1\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Kathryn E.<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Sieving<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"When the birds go unheard: highway noise disrupts information transfer between bird species\" href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/12\/4\/20160113\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a>, published on April 21, 2016 in\u00a0<em>Biology Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication between birds is disrupted near major roadways, where the noise levels are unnaturally high. According to new research from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, this avian communication breakdown may help explain the pattern of reduced biodiversity near highways. Authors of the new study were curious about how building homes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2553,170,114,2551,2552],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-communication-networks","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-northern-cardinal","tag-tufted-titmouse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13651558763_9cefe51f8e_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}