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Hi Everyone,

As part of an offshoot to another thread here are links to some interesting and recent discoveries relating to bird song. The article about White Crowned Sparrows changing the pitch of there songs in relation to the density of foiage is particularly interesting. Also there seems to be evidence that females of the song bird species are programmed during the juvenile period as to which songs sound the `sexiest` to them by listening and remembering the best `local` examples (local being the key to `song type shift` in isolated pockets of subspecies).

Enjoy and please do contribute with any links you may have found also.



There are some links to related studies on birdsong contained withing the webpage as small extracts next to the main body of words which look equally educational (just reading those now)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 114710.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 072517.htm

The link below substantiates a theory of mine that captive song birds raised with single pairs in a mixed community will be poorer singers (with regard to the nominate song) than those raised in a small extended family or stud of the same species.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 203413.htm

I came to this forum to learn new stuff about our birds...Thanks, I learned something today.

There is some interesting studies about the way Zebra finches learn song and the FOXP2 gene that causes languages.

Check out this video on one study of how zebra finches learn song
http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/scie ... ays/22619/
Here is a link to many studies done with bird song to help understand the link to human language. I found all these studies most interesting in relationship to the bird songs.
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/search?pub ... dit=Search


Check out these different songs on the MP# player , 1st generation, 2nd and so on, also the wild song
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/ ... rdculture/

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/0 ... ct.culture