Song Sparrows Must Listen to Sing

By Corey • October 21, 2009 • No comments yet

An interesting study is reported in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer about how young Song Sparrows learn to communicate with other Song Sparrows. Not surprisingly, they have to listen to adults, and when reserachers from the University of Washington played tape of two adult Song Sparrows interacting the young would come listen, but not if the tape was of one Song Sparrow or of a sparrow and chickadee.

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Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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