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Dear Bioacoustics List Members,

Did you know San Francisco's sparrows have different dialects? We thought you might be interested in Bay Nature's fascinating Jan-March 2016 article about San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows and their struggle to survive the city's increasingly noisy landscape.

Learn about the pioneering research on these birds by California Academy of Science's legendary ornithologist Luis Baptista, aka "The Sparrowman of Golden Gate Park", and the plucky researchers who picked up where he left off after his untimely death to learn how the dialects have evolved to compete with the sounds of car alarms, traffic, and other persistent city sounds.

Click here to read the article and listen to the variety of white-crowned sparrow dialects past and present:

https://baynature.org/articles/the-language-of-sparrows/

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JANUARY-MARCH 2016 ISSUE

The Language of Sparrows
San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows struggle to rise above urban noise

Male white-crowned sparrow singing at Point Reyes National Seashore. Photo: Dave Strauss

 

San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows are plucky, flexible types known for singing in dialects local to their home territories in many parts of the city. They're also relatively common and easy to see. That's made them a great subject for research, and now scientists studying how urban animals adapt to changing conditions in big cities have been able to delve into studies from as far back as the 1960s to track changes in the birds' songs in today's urban hubbub. Read "The Language of Sparrows" in the January-March 2016 issue of Bay Nature to see how this "bird of the fog belt" has "changed its tune" to make it in an increasingly noisy environment.

Read the story here.

 

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Name That Tune! 
Listen to the songs, both past and present, of San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows using our beautiful interactive map -- and see if you can make out the differences in dialects over time!

 

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Also in the January-March 2016 issue:

Into the Breach at Cullinan Ranch
Beetlemania!
The Magic of Manzanitas
What Lurks Beneath in San Francisco Bay
Identifying with Lichen

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