Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

A new study has discovered that birds in the Galápagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened levels of aggression.

Yellow warblers near busy roads become increasingly aggressive when traffic drowns out their territorial songs, and noise pollution could trigger fights. A pair of Galapagos Yellow Warblers (Setophaga ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Birds use song during territorial defence as an aggressive signal,” Caglar Akcay, a study co-author and behavioral ecologist at ...