Pigeon hearing

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Anyone know how good there hearing is compared to humans / dogs /mice
Talking a bloke who had the round mice sensory things in his loft that let off a sound we can’t hear but mice can
Just wondered if pigeons hearing is a lot less than mice
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Do pigeons have good hearing?
Pigeon. Pigeons have incredible hearing and there is some scientific speculation that they use their exceptional ability to hear infrasound as part of their impressive in-built navigation system. Infrasound simply means sound waves with frequencies that fall below what humans can hear.
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At a level of 60 dB SPL, their hearing range spanned 8.12 octaves (24.6 Hz–6.86 kHz). Like most birds, they do not hear sounds above 8 kHz.
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For most avian species this is around 1 - 4 kHz, but some species are sensitive to lower or higher frequencies (Konishi 1970, Hienz et al. 1977). Pigeons are most sensitive to sound between 1 - 2 kHz, with an absolute upper limit of about 10 kHz
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Buster121 wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:22 pm Do pigeons have good hearing?
Pigeon. Pigeons have incredible hearing and there is some scientific speculation that they use their exceptional ability to hear infrasound as part of their impressive in-built navigation system. Infrasound simply means sound waves with frequencies that fall below what humans can hear.
So would them mice sensor things not out pigeons off testing Buster.
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I did do a big post but must not have posted due to Dev posting at same time, basically was saying they have different settings on for different animal frequencies, I have one outside loft use it 24/7 cost around £14 from Lidl has 4 or 5 settings including for fox and a smaller one inside loft does not affect birds on the settings I use
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Buster121 wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:38 pm I did do a big post but must not have posted due to Dev posting at same time, basically was saying they have different settings on for different animal frequencies, I have one outside loft use it 24/7 cost around £14 from Lidl has 4 or 5 settings including for fox and a smaller one inside loft does not affect birds on the settings I use
I see that’s interesting
Only I have a fox about and a lad says he used one for mice / rats
So got me thinking about my fox but worried is stops tne birds sleeping etc
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Neil I will see if I can put my hand on the booklet that came with it and try and post some of the info if I can
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Buster121 wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:00 pm Neil I will see if I can put my hand on the booklet that came with it and try and post some of the info if I can
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