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Songbirds sing intricate songs for mate attraction and territorial defense, which they learn early in life. How do young birds learn how to sing? What controls this complex behavior?
May 21, 2021 · Once birds make it out of the nest, songbirds have to set about learning their songs. Some birds, like parrots, are called “open-ended learners” because they can continue learning more and more sounds over their lifetimes.
May 19, 2008 · How Songbirds Learn Their Songs. Like human babies, juvenile zebra finches have their own way of babbling called subsong. A new study has found that subsong is driven by different brain circuits than those that control an adult bird’s song.
Feb 4, 2019 · One such discovery is the balance of nature and nurture in zebra finches’ song learning. On the one hand, these birds have specific areas in the brain that make song learning possible, and on the other hand, help from a tutor is necessary to learn a “normal” song.
May 16, 2002 · Bird fanciers have known for centuries that songbirds learn their songs. This learning has striking parallels to speech acquisition: like humans, birds must hear the sounds of adults during a...
- Michael S. Brainard, Allison J. Doupe
- 2002
May 1, 2006 · Songbirds need to learn their songs from an adult conspecific. This occurs in two phases: a memorization phase, early in life, during which the young bird forms a neural representation (a...
If you hear these phrases while walking through the woods, chances are there are a white-throated sparrow, chestnut-sided warbler and barred owl nearby. Songbirds—and the amusing gimmicks (called mnemonics) we've invented to remember their songs and calls—have long delighted human listeners.
