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Effect of alarm call on tits' behavior on feeder
Lipanská, Barbora ; Fuchs, Roman (advisor) ; Petrusková, Tereza (referee)
LIPANSKÁ, B. 2011: Effect of alarm calls on tit's behavior on feeder. MSc Thesis. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Alarm calls of the Great tit (Parus major) used in the context of ground-predators or perching-raptors consist of high-frequency tonal syllables and of series of churring syllables with broad-frequency range. The function of some acoustical parametres of these complex calls was tested in playback experiment on feeder. As the most effective appeared to be alarm calling of two birds simultaneously. More important for warning function of the calls were broad-frequency range syllables. The length of series of these syllables had an opposite impact than in some north-American chickadees (genus Poecile). The Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) responds to Great tit's alarm calls, but its reactions are weaker. This difference can be caused by its lower competition ability against the Great tit. Key words: antipredation behavior, alarm calls, tits, playback experiment
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Determination of heavy metals in gread tits blood and feathers
Labancová, Katarína ; Hraníček, Jakub (advisor) ; Nováková, Eliška (referee)
CZ Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá analýzou vybraných těžkých kovů (olovo, kadmium, měď, chrom, arsen) ve vzorcích krve a peří sýkor koňader (Parus major) metodou atomové absorpční spektrometrie s elektrotermickou atomizací a technikou generování těkavých sloučenin s detekcí křemenného atomizátoru. Za optimálních podmínek byla sestavena kalibrační závislost a zjistěné základní charakteristiky pro jednotlivé prvky. Klíčová slova Atomová absorpční spektrometrie, elektrotermická atomizace, chemické generovaní, těžké kovy, krev, peří, sýkora
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Are body size and specific species colouration important cues for predator recognition by their potencial prey? Diplomová práce
Antonová, Kateřina ; Fuchs, Roman (advisor) ; Sedláček, Ondřej (referee)
I tested influence of a body size and overal colouration in feeders experiments on recognition of sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) by chosen species of passerine. Experiments were conducted in years 2015 ̶ 2018. I used a plush dummies which carried a specific featuress of raptor (hooked beak, claws) and specific features of genus Accipiter (yellow eyes, respectively yellow eyes and overal colouration). As a control, dummy of harmless pigeon was used. Smaller dummies (size of a great tit) were not recognized as a raptor regardless of colouration. Large dummies with colouration of great tit and pigeon were not recognized as a raptor as well. On a contrary, large dummy with colouration of robin was recognized as a raptor, respectively sparrowhawk. Most birds who were flying to the feeders, at first payed attention to global features (size, overal colouration). If these features belong to well-known harmless bird, then local features (particular) which characterize raptor or sparrowhawk had no effect. Birds did not pay attention to them. Therefore it depends on a context, in which potential local key features occure.
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Determination of heavy metals in gread tits blood and feathers
Labancová, Katarína ; Hraníček, Jakub (advisor) ; Nováková, Eliška (referee)
CZ Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá analýzou vybraných těžkých kovů (olovo, kadmium, měď, chrom, arsen) ve vzorcích krve a peří sýkor koňader (Parus major) metodou atomové absorpční spektrometrie s elektrotermickou atomizací a technikou generování těkavých sloučenin s detekcí křemenného atomizátoru. Za optimálních podmínek byla sestavena kalibrační závislost a zjistěné základní charakteristiky pro jednotlivé prvky. Klíčová slova Atomová absorpční spektrometrie, elektrotermická atomizace, chemické generovaní, těžké kovy, krev, peří, sýkora
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Effect of alarm call on tits' behavior on feeder
Lipanská, Barbora ; Fuchs, Roman (advisor) ; Petrusková, Tereza (referee)
LIPANSKÁ, B. 2011: Effect of alarm calls on tit's behavior on feeder. MSc Thesis. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Alarm calls of the Great tit (Parus major) used in the context of ground-predators or perching-raptors consist of high-frequency tonal syllables and of series of churring syllables with broad-frequency range. The function of some acoustical parametres of these complex calls was tested in playback experiment on feeder. As the most effective appeared to be alarm calling of two birds simultaneously. More important for warning function of the calls were broad-frequency range syllables. The length of series of these syllables had an opposite impact than in some north-American chickadees (genus Poecile). The Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) responds to Great tit's alarm calls, but its reactions are weaker. This difference can be caused by its lower competition ability against the Great tit. Key words: antipredation behavior, alarm calls, tits, playback experiment
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