... to forecast the response of species to long-term environmental change and to study their potential to adapt. Individual great tits ( Parus major ) start reproduction early under warmer conditions in the wild, but whether this effect is causal is not well known. We housed 36 pairs of great tits in climate...

... with ranging, and if the number of song elements and stimulus familiarity affect the ability to discriminate between degraded and undegraded signals. In this study we trained great tits ( Parus major L.) to discriminate between signal variants in two background types, a silent condition and a condition...