RESEARCH
RESEARCHERS AT THE UK’S Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Koç University, Turkey have established a link between traffic noise and aggressive behaviour in European robins (Erithacus rubecula).
Despite their reputation as cheery, friendly garden birds, robins are highly territorial and are intolerant of intruders on their patch, showing both physical and vocal aggression when threatened. A robin’s visual territorial displays include
