Gosh, what an excellent thread. I was beginning to lose faith in this
forum, because (from my point of view as a relatively new member)
there didn't seem to be much of an interest in studying the
vocalizations of individual songbirds (or at least, in talking about
it here). Now I see how wrong I was about that!
Hi Jim,
Very cool to hear from someone who's done such a thorough study of a
songbird's song. I'd be fascinated to hear samples and see the
details of your study.
Among those 26 Song Sparrow phrases, how much overlap/similarity is
there? Have you analyzed other species' vocalizations?
David
At 2008-05-26 12:03, "tubesdumpsterfandango" <> wr=
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>This is a little more on the part of this thread dealing with song
>sparrows. I have recorded in one small marsh area near my home and found
>that the song sparrows used a fixed set of song phrases ranging from
>extremely brief , up to a second in length. Trills and churrs made up of
>very frequent repetitions of mixed frequency transients can last for
>more than a second. After I started dissecting the song this way I came
>up with 26 (so far) recurring phrases that make up a large number of
>complete "songs" in this one very small recording area. I am (of
>course) unsure of what all this means beside the obvious conclusion that
>their individual syrinxes (syringes) are capable of producing them very
>rapidly on demand.
>This may be old news, but was not to me so I thought I would pass it on.
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