Detective work by scientists analyzing 20 years of bird-watchers’ private audio recordings of white-throated sparrow songs revealed that a unique variant that popped up in western Canada has ‘gone ...

Any parents out there will be familiar with the unique sort of misery that results when your kid has a new favorite song. They ask to hear it over and over, without regard for the rest of us. Well, it ...

Researchers in Canada have been tracking the songs sung by White-throated Sparrows and found that their dominate tune has shifted over time in a surprising way. Since the ’60s, their most popular song ...

Some North American birds are changing their tune. The findings fly in the face of previous hypotheses that birdsong dialects don’t change much within local regions. The rapid spread of the new song ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario. By Cara Giaimo Even if you’re not a bird person, you probably know the ...

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers have tracked how one rare sparrow song went ''viral'' across Canada, traveling over 3,000 kilometers between 2000 and 2019 and wiping out a historic ...

Like many birds, male white-throated sparrows belt out songs to defend their territories and attract mates. And until the year 2000, one particular song stood out as the most popular white-throat tune ...

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