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According to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's
website, http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search :
"Males sing three kinds of songs, all including the rich, slurred
warbling characteristic of finch songs. There's the "warbling song,"
a fast, rising and falling string of 6-23 notes often sung while
flocking. Males usually sing a "territory song" alone; it begins with
a few notes on the same pitch before breaking into warbling and
ending with a high, emphatic note. The third is an up-and-down
cadence of 2-5 notes that sounds similar to a Red-eyed Vireo's
whistled hear-me?-see-me?-here-i-am. Females sing their own songs, a
long 1-2 minute warbling from the nest. "
I remember reading that there was uncertainty for some time
as to whether the females sang at all, since immature males can look
just like them. Then someone who was keeping a breeding pair under
observation, saw the female begin to incubate, and she sang while
doing so! That clinched it ...
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
At 11:40 AM 26/02/2010, Jim Wolford wrote:
> >does anyone know whether both sexes sing in purple finches?
> >Purple finches are notoriously variable in just when the young
> males begin to take on the
> >raspberry-coloured features. -- I invite comments or corrections? Lance?
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