• Fitness costs of female choosiness are low in a socially monogamous songbird. (mpg.de)
  • The cordon-bleu is a socially monogamous songbird found in Africa. (mpg.de)
  • In some species, among the white-crowned sparrows of the Bay Area on the California coast, for example, these dialects are fine-grained, changing on the scale of kilometers, a reflection of the short dispersal distances of the young. (yale.edu)
  • Whether any particular species of songbird has music-like song depends on the parameter measured and the type of analysis employed. (frontiersin.org)
  • Songbirds of many species likewise show a phonotaxic response to conspecific song. (frontiersin.org)
  • Over 660 species of songbirds are known to have female song, but we only have female song recordings for about 200 of them. (femalebirdsong.org)
  • But in sparrow species whose young disperse farther, the dialects mark out large portions of the North American continent. (yale.edu)
  • Some species even have distinct dialects depending on where they are from. (medium.com)
  • In most songbirds, the number of calls produced are finite - given enough time, one could find and record all of the call types produced by a given species. (ufl.edu)
  • In this study, we tested whether the homologous pathway responds in songbirds exposed to conspecific song. (frontiersin.org)
  • His doctoral research on the song behavior of the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), supervised by Ned K. Johnson, led to a series of studies that established him as a leading expert of bird vocalization, vocal learning and bird dialects through the rest of his academic career. (wikipedia.org)
  • Young songbirds acquire their vocal repertoire by imitating musical notes produced by adult songbirds. (genewhisperer.com)
  • It's not just humans who have different accents and dialects. (wosu.org)
  • Bird songs are known to vary geographically and many songbirds even have dialects (distinct boundaries between song types of adjacent populations due to song learning). (femalebirdsong.org)
  • Their results show that BirdNET app data successfully replicated known patterns of song dialects in North American and European songbirds and accurately mapped a bird migration on both continents. (progressive-charlestown.com)
  • Our findings are consistent with most studies to date of song and population structure within songbirds. (osu.edu)
  • Never has a song in this dialect been so captivating and sincere in delivery. (com.ng)
  • That lets some songbirds sing two separate melodies at the same time. (birdnote.org)
  • With the concept album ZID has created a unique piece of dialect music and proves once again his creativity for catchy melodies and his sense for the zeitgeist. (davos.ch)
  • Authors [see attached article & editorial] describe how learning can be enhanced in songbirds, by "tailoring teaching strategies" to match the genetic differences of individuals. (genewhisperer.com)
  • The bird communities of the Americas, for example, sound very different from those of Australia because only a few of Australia's diverse assemblage of ancient songbirds left the continent of their origin and dispersed to other places. (yale.edu)
  • In temperate climates like North America, it's often male songbirds that sing the most. (birdnote.org)
  • Couples showing off: Audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird. (mpg.de)
  • And young rats adopted into a colony learn the new dialect, but the older they are, the more of an accent they'll have. (christypeterson.com)
  • This 'local effect' has also been observed in 'dialects' (local pattern variations) of birdsong. (42evolution.org)
  • It's less like a regional dialect among people that's found over a large area. (birdnote.org)
  • To add even more complexity to the equation, chickadees appear to have regional dialects . (ufl.edu)
  • Many songbirds and other animals also produce imprinted learned calls made of ordered sequences (phrases) of sounds. (42evolution.org)
  • I had been told about that duty we human beings had to other animals: if they were suffering, we had to be capable of plucking damaged songbirds from the grass and necking them as we walked, just as I'd seen an older cousin do, without a moment's pause. (newstatesman.com)
  • Machine learning reveals cryptic dialects that explain mate choice in a songbird. (mpg.de)
  • The western grasswren ( Amytornis textilis ) is an elusive Australian songbird that was once found from Shark Bay in Western Australia to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Programmed DNA elimination of germline development genes in songbirds. (mpg.de)
  • Today only some older people know the dialect, only a small minority still farm, descendants have scattered from the original settlements at Moundridge, Pretty Prairie and Freeman to across the nation and the world, and their theology is comparatively liberal. (swissmennonite.org)
  • Ask anyone with a birdfeeder and they might agree that the chickadee is the preteen of the songbird world. (ufl.edu)
  • after all, they left to preserve their faith and culture-Swiss-German dialect, tightly-knit agricultural communities, Christian pacifism and conservative theology. (swissmennonite.org)
  • They can imitate a wide variety of noises, from songbirds to mammals to frogs. (birdnote.org)
  • Kauffman learned taxidermy by correspondence, preserved a variety of Great Plains songbirds and ducks, carved a pioneer family from wood and dressed them in authentic clothes down to high-button shoes. (swissmennonite.org)
  • Songbirds display particularly complex rules to the order of their singing notes. (aeon.co)
  • Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy's race against time to survive ultimately will reveal who is a songbird and who is a snake. (hispanicallyyours.com)
  • And the rats are already a chatty group, so telling each other apart by dialect is natural. (christypeterson.com)
  • This could mean that communication methods can spread in the same group like a dialect. (dailymail.co.uk)