Abstract Anthropogenic noise can affect a number of behavioral, physiological, and ecological aspects animals from major taxonomic groups, raising serious conservation concerns. For example, pollution impacts communicative behavior perception signals, movements distribution, as well predator–prey interactions, such hunting success or predator detection predation risk assessment. We have carried...

Abstract Since the early 1990s, aerial insectivorous birds have shown serious population declines in North America, but it is not clear if factors common to all species within this guild account for these declines. Among sympatric swallows, trends differ, and may be due differences ecology operating throughout annual cycle. Although feed on insects, prey taxa can differ tremendously their “aero...