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Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong ) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding , songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
Noise effects. Beyond annoyance; World Health Organization – Guidelines for Community Noise; The effects of noisy urban environment may cause the loss of memory to elderly person (abstract published in 1st World Congress of Health and Urban Environment book.) Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology
Causal relationships have been discovered between noise and psychological effects such as annoyance, psychiatric disorders, and effects on psychosocial well-being. [5] Exposure to intense levels of noise can cause personality changes and violent reactions. [33] Noise has also been shown to be a factor attributed to violent reactions. [34]
Apr. 24—CHEYENNE — Picture a lemon-breasted western meadowlark perched atop a fence post. He's singing that crystalline meadowlark song, the one that flows like water into your ears across a ...
The adverse effects of noise exposure (i.e. noise pollution) could include: interference with speech or other 'desired' sounds, annoyance, sleep disturbance, anxiety, hearing damage and stress-related cardiovascular health problems.
The lyrebird is an Australian species best known for its ability to mimic man-made sounds. National Geographic has recorded these remarkable birds mimicking such unnatural noises as a chainsaw and ...
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An annual International Dawn Chorus Day is held on the first Sunday in May [6] when the public are encouraged to rise early to listen to bird song at organised events. The first ever was held at Moseley Bog in Birmingham, England, in 1987, organized by the Urban Wildlife Trust (now The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country).