[cobirds] Question about song of Colorado white-throated sparrows

2020-07-04 Thread Willem van Vliet
A study, just published, shows the progressive eastward adoption of a doublet-ending song among white-throated sparrows, replacing the traditional triplet ending. The researchers found that birds from different dialect groups overwinter together and suggest song tutoring during this time is a

Re: [cobirds] Question about song of Colorado white-throated sparrows

2020-07-05 Thread Janet Justice-Waddington
I don't know about white-throated sparrows, but I remember that Stanford, or Cal Tech (?) was doing experiments in the 1980s, on the song sharing, changing, of white-crowned sparrows. Very interesting. Jan Waddington - Jeffco On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:59 PM Willem van Vliet wrote: > > A stu