An interesting study is reported in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer about how young Song Sparrows learn to communicate with other Song Sparrows. Not surprisingly, they have to listen to adults, and when reserachers from the University of Washington played tape of two adult Song Sparrows interacting the young would come listen, but not if the tape was of one Song Sparrow or of a sparrow and chickadee.
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