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Researcher has found a link between bird songs and habitat change
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Elizabeth Derryberry, post-doctoral researcher at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, has found a link between alterations in bird songs and the rapid change in the surrounding habitat. Her research will be featured in the ...
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It takes two to tutor a sparrow
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
Researchers call out to lovers of bird song
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Nov 29, 2007 |
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What happens when we hear a bird? That is the question at the heart of a new research project launched this week at the University of Aberdeen.
'Curtain twitching' skylarks keep track of strangers through their songs (w/ Video)
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Skylarks can hear the difference between friendly neighbours and dangerous strangers, and deal with any threatening intruders, says new research by scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
Bird songs change with environment
May 20, 2009 |
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Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.
Even singers in the bird world have to deal with cover artists
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two competing species of Amazonian birds use the same songs to communicate with each other, Oxford University scientists have found, the first evidence that convergent evolution can arise ...
The song doesn't remain the same in fragmented bird populations
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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The song of passerine birds is a conspicuous and exaggerated display shaped by sexual selection in the context of male-male competition or mate attraction. At the level of the individual, song is considered an indicator of ...
Birds communicate reproductive success in song
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Jun 18, 2008 |
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Some migratory songbirds figure out the best place to live by eavesdropping on the singing of others that successfully have had baby birds – a communication and behavioral trait so strong that researchers playing recorded ...
Researchers studying how singing bats communicate
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Oct 18, 2007 |
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Bats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.
Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
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May 29, 2007 |
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Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors.
Researcher 'sings' for a living to decode the meaning of bird songs
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To many people, bird song can herald the coming of spring, reveal what kind of bird is perched nearby or be merely an unwelcome early morning intrusion. But to Sandra Vehrencamp, Cornell professor ...
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