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List of references already on distraction displays, with analysis of whether they will be kept or not:

(THESE ARE BEING MIGRATED TO DISTRACTION DISPLAY TALK PAGE)

1) Armstrong, Edward A. (2008). "Diversionary Display". Ibis 91 (2): 179. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1949.tb02261.x. (This article from 1949, but attempts to rebut scientists that attribute such displays to emotion. A good article for historical comparison to the theories of today.)

2) Sordahl, Tex A. (1990). "The risks of avian mobbing and distraction behavior: an anecdotal review" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin 102 (2): 349–352. (This one is interesting because it quantifies some actual risks of the display and compares it to another form of defense, mobbing.)

3) Whoriskey, F. G. (1991). "Stickleback distraction displays: sexual or foraging deception against egg cannibalism". Animal Behaviour 41 (6): 989–995. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80637-2. (Really great, as it talks about distraction displays in a species other than birds. Also has a lot of good sources we can mine.)

4) Walters, Jeffrey R. (1990). "Anti-predatory behavior of lapwings: field evidence of discriminative abilities" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin 102 (1): 49–70. (This one isn't very helpful and probably needs to be eliminated. At most it would provide some information on how birds respond differently to different predators, but I don't think it really applies.)

5) Byrkjedal, Ingvar (1989). "Nest defense behavior of lesser golden-plovers" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin 101 (4): 579–590. (May be good for source mining, also gives a really in depth analysis of different types of distraction displays and anti-predator responses.. but it's all in one species.)

6) Rowley, Ian (1962). ""Rodent-Run" Distraction Display By a Passerine, the Superb Blue Wren Malurus cyaneus (L.)". Behaviour 19 (1–2): 170–176. doi:10.1163/156853961X00240. (Deals with older theories on whether distraction display is a conflict in the animal's choices between flight and fight in the present or whether it's separately evolved. Also good source mining, especially for historical sources.)

7) Eric Duffey, N. Creasey (2008). "The "Rodent-Run"Distraction-Behaviour of Certain Waders". Ibis 92: 27. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1950.tb01730.x. (Similar to above.)

8) Stuart-Fox, Devi (2005). "Deception and the origin of honest signals" (PDF). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 (10): 521–523. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.08.004. PMID 16701429. (Irrelevant to distraction display.)

9) Ruxton, Graeme D; Thomas N. Sherratt; Michael Patrick Speed. (2004) Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals and mimicry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852859-0. p. 198 (Provides literally only a single paragraph on distraction display, just gives other major sources I think we already know about. Will be eliminated.)

10) Baskett, Thomas S. and Sayre, Mark W. and Tomlinson, Roy E. (1993) Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove. Stackpole Books, p. 167, ISBN 0-8117-1940-5. (I'm probably not going to bother with this one. Too species specific.)

11) Ristau, Carolyn A. (1991) Aspects of the cognitive ethology of an injury-feigning bird, the piping plover. In Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin By Carolyn A. Ristau, Donald Redfield Griffin. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 91–126, ISBN 0-8058-0252-5. (This is excellent; a long chapter with a lot of hypotheses on why distraction displays happen. I checked this out.)

12) Gochfeld, M. (1984) Antipredator behaviour: aggressive and distraction displays of shorebirds. In: Shorebirds: breeding behaviour and populations. Behaviour of marine mammals (Ed. by Burger, J. and Olla, B.), pp. 289–377. New York: Plenum Press, ISBN 0306415909. (I literally cannot get this source anywhere. We will have to do without it, but I think it could be an important source.)

New sources

Articles

1) Diversionary displays of paternal stickleback: Defenses against cannibalistic groups (More on the fish)

2) To distract display or not: Grouse hens and foxes (On predator responses to distraction displays)

3) The ecology of distraction display (Lots of other old sources.)

4) Bivocal distraction nest-site display in the red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, with comments on outlier nesting and nesting-behavior (A mammal species)

5) Wiklund, Christer G. (1983). Nest Defence in Evolution of Reversed Sexual Size Dimorphism in Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca.

6) Nijman V., Nekaris K.A.I., (2012) Loud Call, Startle Behavior, Social Organisation, and Predator Avoidance in Arboreal Langeurs (primates)

7) Barash, D.P. (1975). Evolutionary Aspects of Parental Behavior: Distraction Behavior of the Alpine Accentor. The Wilson Bulletin, Volume 87(3), 367-373. This is an interesting journal article, albeit slightly dated, that talks about the specific timing of distraction displays in a certain species of bird, the Alpine Accentor, and found that during times when eggs were near hatching or had just hatched the birds were exhibiting distraction display behavior more intensely and frequently in the presence of predators.

8) Mitchell, R.W., Thompson, N.S. (1986). Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Chapter 5 of this book goes into avian distraction displays in two species of birds, and identifies the different motivations for the variety of different distraction displays. The chapter is pretty long but there could be a lot of relevant information here on the diversity of this behavior.

Books

1) Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions (not certain we will use; but especially interested in "The Visual Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions", "Perception of Predation Risk: The Foundation of Nonlethal Predator-Prey Interactions", and "Constraints on Inducible Defenses: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, and Phenotypic Trade-Offs" for supporting sources, especially as regards the risk to the animal performing the distraction display).

2) Predator-Prey Relationships (as above, but interested in "Defense against Predators" and "Behavioral Responses of Prey Fishes During Predator-Prey Interactions" for supporting sources).

3) The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses (again, not sure we will use, need to examine further.)

4) Defence in Animals (some atypical instances in the "Diversion Behavior" section, including tigers and fish)

5) Caro, T. M. "Distraction Displays." Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2005. 343-46. Print. [ This is one was in the original bibliography, but I believe there is more information that can be gained from it. It's on reserve in Perkins, so I'll go take a closer look at it this weekend.]