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TL;DR: It is experimentally shown that urban noise conditions impair male–female communication and that signal efficiency depends on song frequency in the presence of noise, and that low-frequency songs by males are related to female fertility as well as sexual fidelity.

TL;DR: The results strongly suggest an active role for female birds in steering male song behaviour under noisy conditions, which is important to understand the mechanisms related to communication in noise and reveal the critical role of ecology in shaping animal interactions.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors studied how wild birds adjust their fuelling and migration decisions to dynamic environments, and found that birds with extra food gain weight earlier and faster than birds without extra food supply, and departed 12 days earlier.

TL;DR: In this article , high-throughput sequencing was used to capture and enrich phylogenetically and evolutionary informative exonic regions, and a new bait kit (SYRPHIDAE1.0) was successfully used to exon capture the targeted loci in 121 fly species across the different subfamilies of Syrphidae.

TL;DR: Whether low-frequency songs are sexually selected and whether anthropogenic noise really affects male–female communication, as males may just get closer to make their songs more audible are questioned.