THE SONG OF BIRDS This is a term used to describe a wide variety of vocal expressions of birds, which serve to transmit mating-related information. A few species are silent (eg, storks and some pelicans and vultures), but most emit sounds of one kind or another. Particularly in a group, the singing birds or canoros (oscine suborder of the order pasariformes), vocalizations are arranged to form a recognizable sequence of letters generally more than one type and that bear some relationship to each other. This relationship tends to be relatively fixed, and produces a specific pattern of vocalization known as "singing" of the bird in question. It is not always easy to distinguish between the "song" and the "call" of a bird. The call note is usually single (sometimes it is the same note repeated), as in the case of flight calls of finches or the food of the strikes, but some vocalizations that are functionally included in the category songs are more or less that repeated call notes. Examples include the singing of certain plovers and pigeons. In fact, these birds are unable to make a sound similar to the real singing, as only they have syrinx, the vocal organ of sufficient complexity to produce different sounds and variables. Thus the song of oscine not be limited to simple repairs and modifications to the call notes. In true singing birds, a species may exhibit a wide range of vocalizations, from simple call notes to a song prepared, with notes calling patterns, relatively simple, in the middle. At the beginning of the breeding season, before he fully developed the song, he just made up, sometimes, a few simple notes. However, the real song is usually easily recognizable by its musical complexity. The main difference between the song and other sounds made by birds is based on the circumstances in which they occur. In most cases, the song is related to reproduction. Is an important part of territorial behavior, as most songbirds use it to establish, define and defend the breeding territory. Often the male vocals placed in a special place, so that listeners can locate it easier. If, at the beginning of the breeding season, a male newcomer to listen to another area and repeated vigorous singing from the same tree, you can rest assured that it is the owner of that territory, and therefore, will go elsewhere. Therefore, one can consider the song as a way to avoid fights over territory. Fights occur only when there is enough space for all couples in heat, or to a lesser extent, the boundaries between each other's territories.
seems that singing is also important to maintain the bonds between partners and for them to synchronize their activities during the breeding season. Other functions related to reproduction, is regulated by the secretion of sex hormones in the testes or ovary, and often rightly regarded as an important part of sexual display. By contrast, other types of vocalizations are used in circumstances that have little or nothing related to sexual activity. Examples are the previously mentioned flight calls or food, and the many vocalizations that are used to establish communication between parents and children. It is, therefore, means tending to the survival of the individual and not the conservation of the species, which is what constitutes the primary purpose of singing.
We must make mention of the instrumental sounds produced by birds, which, if not in origin, could be included among the category of Singing, understood as a series of notes, usually more than one type, issued in succession and related so that they can recognize a sequence or pattern in time. From the functional point of view, the sounds associated with sexual display, it certainly can be considered as a form of singing. These include producing the drumming on the ground the tail feathers of snipe the wind blowing between them when the bird stalls, which produces the Carpenter quickly when it hits the peak branches or other resonant structures, the noisy flutter that accompanies the cackle of pheasants and the flutter of pigeons during display flights. (Erithacus rubecula), for example, the code contains more than 1300 different reasons, and there are individuals that employ several hundred them. This diversity is largely dependent on the combinations and permutations of the elements of each motif. It also introduced organizational changes of the grounds and it seems the bird is able to improvise to some extent, on the theme of each motif. Robin provides an example of a bird whose song is musical and pleasing to any human ear. Whatever the definition of music, most people consider music to the songs of many species of birds. The MIRLO (Turdus merula), NIGHTINGALE (Luscinia megarhynchos), the Central American Tinamou, the polychrome butcher Australia and the lonely of the Rocky Mountains are just some examples of the many birds noted for one or another aspect of their songs, which are very nice. The cadence of the constituent units of the song is clearly one of the important factors of its effect both on other birds as on humans. Usually unique for each species: this applies to the acceleration can be seen in the song of the finch or the Scandinavian ptarmigan, the variation observable in comparing the two notes per second chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), the 300 notes for eight seconds Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), or changes and variations in ground speed of the nightingale or the blackcap. But in some species involved in the singing more than one individual. In several species of bakers (ovenbirds) and motmots (momota), both members of the couple sing a duet. Other groups have come to more, since both sexes alternate their contribution to the whole song, as demonstrated perfect timing. This applies, for example, in some tyrants (Tirana), wrens (cave dwellings), shrike (lánidos) and bearded (upholstery). In many of these species, the synchronization between the two birds come to the point it just seems to sing an animal. Mimicry also invites birds to use the vocalizations of others, within the characteristics of their own song. It is well known the ability imitative parrots, crows and mines, but there are many other species in natural conditions, incorporate into their songs different bird vocalizations, and even other sounds. The starling, Sturnus vulgaris, Silva, Acrocephalus palustris, the Minus polyglottos and outfielder chapel Chamydera maculata, are outstanding examples of this. Has reported the case of a mockingbird that sang songs of the 30 other species at least. And a starling that nests on the roof of the house of author mimics these lines more than 22 species of birds native to England, as well as sheep, dogs and humans. But probably the best imitators are birds of paradise, birds and gardeners lira Australians, not just mimic a wide variety of other birds and mammals, but a lot of inanimate sounds from the horn of a car to water falling into a bucket. However, so far unknown function that imitative capacity development. In addition to possession of feathers and the advantages derived from this fact, it is possible that the most salient characteristic of birds, overall, is the use of vocalizations in song. The ability has come to sing them to a higher degree than any other group of animals, except man, and in most species play a role in its existence. PMD
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- Ricardo SánchezLas birds are capable of producing many different sounds, since, except a few species that are silent (storks, pelicans and some vultures), the rest are able to sing, or at least deliver some kind of sound. Specifically, the group of birds called singers, or songbirds, produce a recognizable series of notes. Do not confuse the true with the so-called singing calls, which usually are a single repeated note, as is the case of flight calls of finches. In fact, there are birds like pigeons, they can not, strictly speaking, singing, as no syrinx, a vocal organ capable of modifying the sound in very different ways. In true songbirds, any species can have a variety of songs. The most primitive, biologically speaking, singing simple issue, and vice versa. The first prize for singing what is the Blackbird, whom the Garstang scholar called "the Beethoven of the birds." Is capable of inventing long and complex melodies, and, as also are capable of, for example, thrushes, perceives the perfect octaves and chords over, and introduced into many of his tunes. Blackbirds have a great variety of songs, and even seems to make little melodies that if they like it, are repeated year after year.
There are species to which the notice engaged in what seems to be singing practice. The singer Frangcon Davies (1905), describes an American Robin that struck in that occupation, every day in Central Park in New York. The bird was learning to issue notes was practicing perfectly tuned and very clearly, so that the melody could be transcribed in a pentagram. Many birds newborns and train their throats while they are in the nest, and sparrows, for example, and make sounds from inside the egg. Birds learn the songs of their parents. A bird that is raised by parents of another species, sing as their adoptive parents. The exception is the cuckoo, which preserves the edge of their species but never heard to sing theirs. All birds have great capacity for imitation. In fact, their songs tend to be transmitted by tradition, from father to son. Just as in traditional folklore, people can go about changes in the songs over time and across locations. However, there are especially gifted individuals who are able to create melodies and dispense at least in part from the traditional melodies of its kind. Switzerland was reported in a case of a blackbird I heard the tune a shepherd whistling every day, although that, yes, pretty tune. The blackbird was learned, but properly tuned. Regarding the ability to imitate, some species are capable of imitating the songs of others. For example, there is a sinsinote imitating the song of other 30 species, and a starling that mimicked other 22 as well as sheep, dogs and people. Other species, like birds of paradise, birds lira and Australian gardeners, as well as mimic other birds and animals are able to copy sounds like the horn of a car or falling water in a bucket. Songbirds Good colors are usually off, but there are some exceptions, tile com Cardelines American or English. The behavior of birds while singing, varies among species. The nightingale seems to fall into ecstasy, while other species seem to do it mechanically. As already mentioned, many birds are able to imitate and learn tunes. Mozart himself, he said, in his book of accounts, expenditure of 34 kreutzer (about 2 €) to purchase a trained starling, which taught her a song. By 1700, John Hamersley published in London, a book with special melodies for birds, they could be taught by the flageolet. TUNING has been much discussion about the issue of absolute or relative pitch of the birds. The authors Sir J. Swinburne, Bart and FRS, as mental processes work in the music, tell of a gray parrot who taught him to whistle Beethoven fragments. When I told Pastoral Sonata, the animal was whistling a piece of that sonata. For several days the parrot listened and noted what he sang. They saw that the height was similar, but one day, when the parrot in the sun, began to whistle on his own initiative everything he knew, repeating one and others, and did so in different shades, which concluded that there was no use of a pitch absolute but relative. The best singers the nightingale, blackbird and skylark are among those who have the best reputation and the thrush. Others are the Breast Cardinal pink the scarlet tanager, the vireo melodious and pollock Runi crown. Can issue sentences of 20 to 30 notes and complex rhythms. The song of canaries has been improved by breeders, and some that can sing up to 14 phrases.
why birds sing has always been considered that birds sing to attract mates. Obviously, this is an important function. It also serves to define the territory occupied by each, which avoids fights and other problems. It also serves to maintain the bonds between partners and that these members are synchronized during the breeding season. Other sounds made by birds are related to power flight calls, or communication between parents and children. However, the birds singing also grow as humans do, for simple pleasure of an aesthetic nature, or leisure. When family obligations are strong, decay time devoted to singing. There are even birds singing in chorus. In some species of bakers (ovenbirds), members of a pair sing a duet. Other species alternate their contribution to the song together, as the shrikes. Often, the two partners sing with such timing that seems to be one. Finches and starlings sing, often in chorus, and swallows. Starlings have been observed in which a soloist begins a sentence just the rest in chorus. In other species has been observed as several groups, scattered, they alternated singing, that goes from one group to another, to return to the former. And it is not only limited to singing, as in the case of the chickens of rock, South American, who meet in groups and some dancing while the other looks. Many composers inspired composers have been inspired by the singing of birds to compose his works. The eighteenth century French harpsichord, as Couperin, Daquin and Rameau, wrote numerous compositions whose title character and resemble the songs of the nightingales, finches and doves. Walther (1650), mimics the birdsong in chamber music. Handel introduces many imitations of birds (composed in his book The Cuckoo and the Nightingale). In the opera Rinaldo imitate the birds with two flutes and a flageolet, and even in the first performance of opera in London (1711), many sparrows were released on stage. And so, Telemann (Aria of the nightingale), Vivaldi (Concerto of the cuckoo), Bach, Haydn, L. Mozart (Symphony of the toys, some toys which imitate the birds), Beethoven, Wagner, Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the Animals), Granados (Goyescas), Respighi (published a suite "The Birds, is a recasting all orchestral compositions above referring to the birds and many more. have imitated or used singers of nature: birds
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