Urban Low-Rise Residential Areas Provide Preferred Song Post Sites for a Resident Songbird.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization is expanding rapidly worldwide, and brings additional selection pressure on animals. The song differences between urban and rural songbirds have been widely verified, but the effects of urban morphological variation on long-settled urban birds have been poorly explored. Here, we investigated the distribution and song differences of a common resident songbird-the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) between three urban morphology types (i.e., urban park, low-rise residential area, and high-rise residential area). The results indicated that the population density in low-rise residential areas was significantly higher than in urban parks, while it was the lowest in high-rise residential areas. Males in low-rise residential areas had greater song length, syllable numb

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494978 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature