European starlings are one of the many bird species changing their songs in urban environments. Image by 4028mdk09 at Wikimedia Commons. |
This week at Accumulating Glitches I tell the story of how urbanization is changing our avian soundscape. Check it out here.
And to learn more, check this out:
Slabbekoorn, H. (2013). Songs of the city: noise-dependent spectral plasticity in the acoustic phenotype of urban birds Animal Behaviour (85), 1089-1099 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.021
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