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squawk: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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squawk1 CONSTRUCTSquawk callHARSH CALL · ALARM

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Ornithology / ethology

a harsh, broadband call birds give in alarm or distress, which can encode the type of threat.

In animal behaviour a squawk is a harsh, broadband vocalisation birds give in alarm or distress, and such calls can carry specific information: some alarm calls encode the type or urgency of a threat and prompt matching antipredator responses in listeners. Farrow, Doohan, and McDonald's 2017 Alarm calls of a cooperative bird are referential and elicit context-specific antipredator behavior shows this referential quality in a cooperative species. The referent is an acoustic signal and the information it conveys, characterised by its spectral and temporal structure, and it is a wholly different construct from a transponder code, sharing only the onomatopoeic word.[1]

Unit
Not applicable (an acoustic signal and its information content)
Recovery means
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Characterised by the call's acoustic structure and the antipredator responses it elicits in receivers

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References

  1. Farrow, L. F., Doohan, S. J., & McDonald, P. G. (2017). Alarm calls of a cooperative bird are referential and elicit context-specific antipredator behavior. Behavioral Ecology, 28(3), 724–731. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx020

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