Related birds evolve different songs and colours


Canadian Researchers have discovered a pattern in birds’ songs and plumage that help explain some of the colourful and tuneful variety in nature.







“We found, repeatedly, that birds that [live in the same location] with a close relative have more divergent songs and colour patterns,” he told BBC Nature.


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  1. Listening to a Thrush singing just in front of my studio high in the pear trees at the moment. When another competes it’s like a battle of will and stamina. And yes, I can tell the difference between the songs.

  2. I saw a news item about this earlier.
    It looks like the different colouration and different songs, separate related species occupying different niches in the same habitat, where cross-breeding would produce disadvantaged offspring.  The hybrid offspring would not compete because they would be poorly adapted to either niche.

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