03-21: The Secrets of Female Bird Song with Lauryn Benedict

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The incredible variety of bird song in a morning chorus on a spring or summer day is a phenomenon that a lot of birders are familiar with. But even after centuries of study there is still a lot we don’t know about bird vocalizations, especially the world of female birdsong. The vocalizations of female birds are frequently as complex and important to the lives of birds as the songs we associate with male birds, and it’s only relatively recently that we’ve begin to really look into that. Dr. Lauryn Benedict, from the University of Northern Colorado, has been on the cutting edge of this science and she joins me to talk about bird vocalizations and other aspects of female bird biology.

Also, Kirtland's Warbler is off the Endangered Species List and what is birding like after LASIK surgery.

Thanks to Turismo de Lisboa for sponsoring this episode.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Turismo de Lisboa. The Iberian Peninsula
0:05.8	offers some of the best birding in Europe, and Lisbon, Portugal is an excellent gateway to it all.
0:11.7	Located at the mouth of the Tagus River, with exceptional birding just a short distance away,
0:16.1	Lisbon is a paradise for migratory waterbirds with wintering flamingos, storks, raptors, and more.
0:22.1	And it's one of the most affordable cities in Europe. For more information on what you can expect
0:26.1	from Portugal's capital, be it cultural or birding highlights, go to visit lisboa.com.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:41.3	I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:43.2	I don't know about you, but the last month or so, it feels like it has been full of some pretty depressing bird news.
0:55.0	First there was the ABC Cornell study about the 3 billion lost birds.
1:01.0	We actually talked about that last time in the podcast.
1:04.0	I would encourage you to go back and listen to that episode.
1:07.0	I felt like it was a good conversation.
1:09.0	ABC's Jordan Rudder and of of course, our own Ted Floyd.
1:13.0	That was also followed not long after by an Audubon report regarding the threat to North American birds due to climate change.
1:21.0	There's also been sort of the dread of month after month of record-breaking summer temperatures
1:25.5	and the associated crazy bird records and northern
1:29.2	parts of the continent, which, you know, don't get me wrong, is the sort of silver lining to this
1:34.3	enormous dark cloud. I, as a birder and naturalist, am sort of morbidly fascinated by this
1:42.7	planet-wide lab experiment that we're all sort of part of and
1:46.2	extremely concerned about how it is shaking out. I'm generally not an anxious person, but it is
1:52.4	hard not to give in to some anxiety. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in all that. But I did see
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