Animals must constantly balance the need to find resources with the risk of predation. Not only avoiding direct encounters with predators but also assessing the overall risk of their environment using cues, social information or habitat traits at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Although such multiscale understanding of the landscape of fear has been recognized, few studies have concomitantly measured how habitat traits at different scales affect risk perception (direct or indirect). Here, we conducted a set of field-based giving-up density experiments to study risk perception on white-naped jays living in semi-arid thorn forests in northeastern Brazil. We recorded data from 23 groups of jays, ranging from 2 to 15 individuals per group, exposed to simulated predators in areas with varying habitat complexity at both local and landscape scales. Overall, our findings support the hypotheses of risky times and habitat complexity risk mediation. White-naped jays exhibited reduced food consumption in the presence of a predator and displayed increased vigilance while consuming less food in more complex habitat patches with dense canopy cover in regenerated forest areas. Finaly, we found no evidence supporting the many-eyes hypothesis; larger groups of white-naped jays did not reduce vigilance. Instead, vigilance was influenced by habitat characteristics like canopy cover and the differences between managed and regenerated forests. These findings underscore the dependency of risk perception on habitat complexity across various scales, indicating that simplifying habitats may create a less fearful environment, thereby increasing prey vulnerability by diminishing antipredator behaviours.