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Home arrow The Sociable Nest arrow Birds Change Songs to Suit Urban Life
Birds Change Songs to Suit Urban Life PDF Print E-mail
Written by Katja Soehngen   
Monday, 22 September 2008

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''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
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at Monday, 22 September 2008 15:27by Jay
that's really amazing! they adapt far more than we realise I think...
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at Monday, 22 September 2008 21:09by Charlie
Gosh - I think birds adapt alot easier than us humans!! Thanks for the interesting info Katja!
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at Friday, 26 September 2008 10:37by Laine
Beautiful pic Katja!!
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