06-16: The Secrets of Female Bird Song with Lauryn Benedict

The American Birding Podcast

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Nature, Science, Hobbies, Leisure

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 30 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 host Nate Swick to talk about bird vocalizations and other aspects of female bird biology.

Also, American Ornithological Society taxonomy proposals are out, and Nate hits some of the highlights.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for spring migration?
0:02.0	With May just around the corner, it's time to register for the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival.
0:08.0	Woodlands, grasslands, marshes, swamps, and miles of Lake Michigan shoreline make Indiana Dunes a birding hotspot.
0:16.0	The 2022 Festival, May 11 through May 15, features over 150 events, including field trips, workshops,
0:24.6	and inspiring and entertaining presentations headlined by author and educator David Lindo,
0:31.4	The Urban Birder. For the full up-to-date schedule and to register, visit I.N. Doones Birding Festival.com.
0:40.6	Registration closes May 1st.
0:47.8	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:51.8	I'm Nate Swick.
0:53.3	The American Ornithological Society's
0:55.3	North American Classification Committee proposals are out in their entirety. They took a while
1:00.6	to publish this year. They are, of course, the splits and lumps that we all look forward to every
1:06.5	year, and at least previously, the name changes, though they have been less forthcoming
1:09.9	with those in recent years in light of the bird names for birds effort.
1:14.3	We haven't talked about that much lately.
1:15.9	Frankly, not a lot has gone on.
1:17.4	There's a committee being formed.
1:18.6	There's chairs of that committee.
1:19.8	I don't know who they are, but I've heard good things for people who do.
1:23.3	So it's ongoing, slowly perhaps, but ongoing.
1:28.2	To the proposals, there's nothing exceptionally controversial up this year, though the same could be said for last year.
1:34.8	And we'll have a friend of the podcast, Nick Block on later this spring, to really dig in.
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