Bird Songs Change With The Landscape

Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 09:21 in Biology & Nature

When the going gets rough, the tough apparently sing slower. As vegetation reclaimed formerly cleared land in California, Oregon and Washington over the last 35 years, male white-crowned sparrows have lowered their pitch and slowed down their singing so that their love songs would carry better through heavier foliage. This is the first time that anyone has shown that bird songs can shift with rapid changes in habitat, scientists report.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net