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The song is loud, with an impressive range of whistles, trills and gurgles. Its song is particularly noticeable at night because few other birds are singing. This is why its name includes "night" in several languages. Only unpaired males sing regularly at night, and nocturnal song probably serves to attract a mate.
Nightingale song: Because nightingales sing both day and night, it is believed night songs are courtship related and dawn songs are territorial in nature. [by whom?] Song repertoire can be attributed to male songbirds as it is one of the main mechanisms of courtship. Song repertoires differ from male individual to male individual and species to ...
Birds sing louder and at a higher pitch in urban areas, where there is ambient low-frequency noise. [58] [59] Traffic noise was found to decrease reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) due to the overlap in acoustic frequency. [60] During the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced traffic noise led to birds in San Francisco singing 30% more ...
In some species, a single song incorporates several note types which serve different purposes, with one type of note eliciting responses from females, and another note of the same song responsible for warning competitor males of aggression. [19] Common nightingale sings both day and night. It is believed the day song is territorial in nature ...
But no words can summon the beauty this song brings to human ears drinking it in. It sounds like a one-bird duet the bird’s singing. Wood thrushes can produce overlapping songs simultaneously.
Although both sexes sing, female song was only recently described. [8] (See below for details about song.) Calls include witt or witt-witt and a loud splee-plink when excited or trying to chase intruders away from the nest. [6] The alarm calls include a sharp siflitt for predators like cats and a flitt-flitt for birds of prey like the hobby. [9]
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The prequel is also where we learn more about the origins of "The Hanging Tree" song, which Katniss sings in Mockingjay.The song was actually first composed and sung by Lucy Gray.