Question about song of Colorado white-throated sparrows

[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 facilitating factor (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30771-5.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982220307715%3Fshowall%3Dtrue).

Is there any information on how white-throated sparrows in Colorado fit into this trend?

Willem van Vliet--

Boulder County

[Sandra Laursen]

I don't know the answer, but can recommend the piece by Sarah Zhang in the Atlantic Monthly, with recordings and sonograms

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/07/bird-song-sparrows/613768/

[Diana Beatty]

The question that came to my mind is about song change over time in general - if we were to travel back in time 1000 years, for example, would we recognize the White-throated Sparrow song at all?  

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[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

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[Pam Piombino]

Good question and nice link.  Thanks to both, Pam

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:13 PM Sandra Laursen <sala...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Birding]

Coincidentally, there is a very informative article on this in today’s Post.

Norm Lewis

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On Jul 5, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Pam Piombino <piombi...@gmail.com> wrote:



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