• Question: what is your favorited bird song and why?

    Asked by JMboss123*^_! to Rupert on 5 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 5 Mar 2017:

      Now that’s a difficult question. I like lots of different species’ songs, each for a different reason. I suppose my favourite would have to be the corn bunting because I know it looks so precise and, well, pretty, as well as sounding beautiful. It’s like a babbling brook on a summer’s day, a dribble of silver. And the first time I hear it each summer it makes me smile and relax. It’s also the song that made me want to study animal behaviour.
      The “jenny” wren would probably me my 2nd favourite: they are a tiny tiny bird with that little sticky-up-tail but they sing an incredibly loud song with a trill that seems to make its whole body shake. Plus the wren has a fun scientific name, “Troglodytes troglodytes”

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  • Photo: Cedric

    Cedric commented on :

    Fun question, birds sing to protect their homes or attract mates. So I like a song, am I attract to that bird? haha

    Well, I think a lot of bird songs are lovely, in Southeast Asia, there is still cage bird trade, where wild birds are caught an placed in cages where they sing for people at a gathering. Not sure whether this is quite that ethical. Nevertheless, I had say the red junglefowl (chicken) territorial call, as its a great awakening call!