Study of vocal signals and behavioral patterns of Red-wattled lapwing (Venellus indicus) in response to different stimuli.
Keywords:
Red -wattled lapwing, Anti-predatory Behavior,, Anti predatory Strategies,, Defense MechanismAbstract
Predation is the key factor on prey on natural selection and the outcome of this prey shows the anti-predatory behavior through its vocal signal. Birds show anti-predatory vocal signals like alarm calls, warning calls and mobbing calls, which are produced by the bird in the presence of a predator. Red-wattled lapwing shows strategies against the predators to save their nest and offspring. The observation was made on various vocal responses of red-wattled lapwing (Venellus indicus) like alarm call, aggressive behavior, fleeing behavior, and distraction behavior. The red-wattled lapwing used different vocalizations as defense mechanisms in various threatening conditions. Both males and females take part in parental duties in cryptic situations. Predation rates on lapwing nests were found to be high due to human disturbance. The observations were made on lapwing by sound recording analysis. The present study is focused on the vocal behavior and the defense mechanism of Red-wattled lapwing against the predators in the Aurangabad region. (MS).
Downloads
References
Cooper WE & Blumstein DT (Eds.) (2015) Escaping from predators: an integrative view of escape decisions. Cambridge University Press.
Fedy BC & Stutchbury BJ (2005) Territory defence in tropical birds: are females as aggressive as males? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 58, 414-422.
Gupta S & Saxena K (2024) Unravellingthe escape behaviour of red-wattled lapwing Vanellusindicus (Boddaert, 1783) in an urban ecosystem. Ornithology Research, 1-9.
Gupta S, Agrawal A, & Saxena K (2022) Defense Strategies in Birds of Cadriidae Family. In Proceedings of the Zoological Society (Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 395-412). New Delhi: Springer India.
Hu Y & Cardoso GC (2009) Are bird species that vocalize at higher frequencies preadapted to inhabit noisy urban areas?. Behavioral Ecology, 20(6), 1268-1273.
James FR, Okafor CI, Osinubi ST, Manu SA, Ivande S, & Omotoriogun TC (2023) Antipredatory call behavior of lapwing species in an Afrotropical environment. Avian Research, 14, 100137.
Journal of threatened taxa vol.15 No.8 https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2023.15.8.23631-23836
Kaur M & Khera K (2017) On the fundamentals of breeding biology and present threats to red wattled lapwing (Vanellusindicus) in agricultural landscape of Punjab. Journal of entomology and zoology studies, 5(4), 1501-1506.
Lucy F, Farrow, Samantha J, Doohan, Paul G, McDonald (2017) Alarm calls of a cooperative bird are referential and elicit context-specific antipredator behavior. Behavioral Ecology, 28(3):724-731. doi: 10.1093/BEHECO/ARX020
Mishra Himanshu and Kumar Ashish (2020)Diagnosing nest predators and anti-predator response of red wattled lapwing, Vanellusindicus (Boddaert, 1783). ActaEcologicaSinica, doi: 10.1016/J.CHNAES.2020.11.004.
Smith PA & Wilson S (2010) Intraseasonal patterns in shorebird nest survival are related to nest age and defencebehaviour. Oecologia, 163, 613-624.
Walters JR (1990) Anti-predatory behavior of lapwings: field evidence of discriminative abilities. The Wilson Bulletin, 49-70.
Weston MA, McLeod EM, Blumstein DT & Guay PJ (2012) A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds. Emu-Austral Ornithology, 112(4), 269-286.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/
