Frequency of mixed species flocking in tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison

JM Thiollay - Journal of Avian Biology, 1999 - JSTOR
The composition and frequency of occurrence of mixed flocks among foraging insectivorous
birds were compared between several tropical forests from South America to the Indian …

Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis

JM THIOLLAY, M Jullien - Ibis, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Randomly encountered foraging birds were recorded in a primary rain forest of French
Guiana (13,550 records of 216 species), together with their size, diet and habitat use, to …

The survival value of flocking in Neotropical birds: Reality or fiction?

M Jullien, J Clobert - Ecology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Greater foraging efficiency and/or better predator avoidance have long been assumed and
used as explanations for the evolution of flocking behavior in birds. Even if the debate …

Modeling the flocking propensity of passerine birds in two Neotropical habitats

LY Pomara, RJ Cooper, LJ Petit - Oecologia, 2007 - Springer
We examined the importance of mixed-species flock abundance, individual bird home range
size, foraging height, and foraging patch characteristics in predicting the propensity for five …

[图书][B] The behavioral ecology of mixed-species bird flocks in Amazonian Peru

CA MUNN III - 1984 - search.proquest.com
During 30 months at a site in Amazonian Peru, I examined the costs and benefits of flocking
for different species of forest birds. I mist-netted and individually color-banded over 2,000 …

Does niche-overlap facilitate mixed-species flocking in birds?

F Hsieh, CC Chen - Journal of Ornithology, 2011 - Springer
Foraging niche overlap between attendant species and the nuclear species of mixed-
species flocks may induce competition as well as facilitation. In this study, we hypothesized …

Bird mixed‐species flock formation is driven by low temperatures between and within seasons in a Subtropical Andean‐foothill forest

GG Mangini, JI Areta - Biotropica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
According to both the predation avoidance and foraging efficiency hypotheses, birds within
mixed flocks increase their foraging efficiency and/or can spend more time feeding and less …

Composition of mixed‐species flocks and shifts in foraging location of flocking species on Hainan Island, China

F Zou, G Chen, Q Yang, JR Fellowes - Ibis, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A total of 134 bird species were recorded at Jianfengling, Hainan Island, in China from May
2000 to September 2004, of which 44 participated in one or more of 134 mixed‐species …

Do similar foragers flock together? Nonbreeding foraging behavior and its impact on mixed-species flocking associations in a subtropical region

HH Jones, MJ Walters, SK Robinson - The Auk, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Mixed-species flocks are ubiquitous in forest bird communities, yet the extent to which
positive (facilitative) or negative (competitive) interactions structure these assemblages has …

Multi‐species territoriality and dynamic of neotropical forest understorey bird flocks

M Jullien, JM Thiollay - Journal of Animal Ecology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
1. Eleven contiguous mixed‐species bird flocks, with colour‐banded individuals, were
monitored continuously during 3 years in a 132‐ha study area of primary rainforest in French …