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Birds Change Songs to Suit Urban Life

Written by Katja Soehngen

Monday, 22 September 2008

''City life drives birds to change their tunes, recent research shows.
A new study says that birds living in major cities sing shorter, faster songs that are higher-pitched than those sung by their brethren in the forests.
The researchers think that the birds adjust their songs to allow themselves to be heard over the din of the city, especially the low rumble of traffic noise.

The species they focused on, the Great Tit, is widespread across Eurasia and one of the few types of birds that thrives in big cities.

Singing is crucial for males, which use their songs to attract mates and mark out their territory.

The changing songs could play a role in eventually causing the city birds and the forest dwellers to evolve into separate species, Slabbekoorn speculated.''

To read the whole article,have a look here at National Geographic:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061206-birds-cities.html

Aren't birds just amazing ?!

» 3 Comments

1Comment
at Monday, 22 September 2008 15:27by Jay

that's really amazing! they adapt far more than we realise I think...

2Comment
at Monday, 22 September 2008 21:09by Charlie

Gosh - I think birds adapt alot easier than us humans!! Thanks for the interesting info Katja!

3Comment
at Friday, 26 September 2008 10:37by Laine

Beautiful pic Katja!!

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