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Is that umbrella looking at me? And other concerns of an urban bird

EPISODE · May 7, 2019 · 30 MIN

Is that umbrella looking at me? And other concerns of an urban bird

from Fledgling Theories · host Ellie Roark & Willson Gaul

Do birds get used to people walking past?  Today we are talking about whether birds in rural and urban areas differ in how easily they are spooked by passers by, both human and... well, umbrellan.  To hear more about the role of eyed umbrellas in bird research, tune in to our discussion of "Predictors of flight behavior in rural and urban songbirds" (Battle, Folz, & Moore 2016).

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