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Warbler Species Fires Up Song Diversity

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hermit warblers in California have developed 35 different song dialects, apparently as a result of wildfires temporarily driving them out of certain areas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0

That's a bird called the Hermit Orbler. It freeds along the U.S. West Coast.

0:46.7

They all kind of look the same. They have a cute little yellow head and a gray body.

0:53.4

Red Furnace, a biostatistician at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

0:59.6

Typically, birds sing the same one song within one region because the song attracts mates.

1:06.0

And different regions can have slightly different dialects of the song.

1:09.6

But what we also notice that there are some places that were exceptions to this rule,

1:14.6

that some places there was more than one song in the same place.

1:19.6

And so we were curious why that would be the case.

1:22.6

To investigate, Furness and his team recorded Hermit Orbler songs, lots of them.

1:28.6

We had to go all over California.

1:31.5

So we went to a hundred different locations throughout the state and all the different potential

1:36.2

habitats of this species.

1:38.8

The researchers analyzed all the Hermit Orbler songs they collected and discovered that

1:44.0

the Hermit Orbler doesn't just

1:45.8

violate the usual one song per region rule.

1:49.0

They positively demolish it.

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