Swainson's thrushes vary song structure and singing behavior across ambient noise gradients and rapidly adjust songs in response to experimental traffic noise
Brigitta Mathews, Riley Crawford, Annika Dank, Jasper McCutcheon, Cvetana Ilic, Christopher N. Templeton
This study shows Swainson's thrushes adjust their song structure in response to traffic noise, changing frequency, duration, and minimum frequency during playback experiments.
Royal Society Open Science · Oct 7, 2026Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition