Bird communication

Sep 26, 2023

During my postdoc I was part of an NCN-funded project Interspecific competition for acoustic space in birds led by Dr Michał Budka at the Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland.

We used passive acoustic monitoring and playback experiments to investigate strategies used by forest bird communities to minimise competition for acoustic space.

Bioacoustics Ecology
Agata Staniewicz
Agata Staniewicz
Research scientist

Publications

Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds
Acoustic signals are of critical importance to songbirds which rely on them for mate attraction and territorial defence. Interference …
Agata Staniewicz, Emilia Sokołowska, Michał Budka
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Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds
Competition for acoustic space in a temperate-forest bird community
Animals that communicate by acoustic signaling share a common acoustic environment. Birds are particularly vocal examples, using a wide …
Agata Staniewicz, Emilia Sokołowska, Adrianna Muszyńska, Michał Budka
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Competition for acoustic space in a temperate-forest bird community
Interspecific avoidance of song overlap in tropical songbirds: species-specific responses to acoustically similar and different intruders
To ensure effective acoustic communication, signals should reach receivers in the least distorted form possible. Animals use various …
Michał Budka, Agata Staniewicz, Emilia Sokołowska
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Interspecific avoidance of song overlap in tropical songbirds: species-specific responses to acoustically similar and different intruders
Acoustic indices estimate breeding bird species richness with daily and seasonally variable effectiveness in lowland temperate Białowieża forest
Acoustic indices have been proposed as rapid and easy to apply tool for biodiversity estimation of vocalising animals without the need …
Michał Budka, Emilia Sokołowska, Adrianna Muszyńska, Agata Staniewicz
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Acoustic indices estimate breeding bird species richness with daily and seasonally variable effectiveness in lowland temperate Białowieża forest