Monday, August 24, 2009

Why Do Birds Sing?

Birds Sing

The song of birds is one of the loveliest gifts of nature. When birds sing, they are, in fact, communicating with each other. Of course, they sometimes sing as expressions of joy.

When wild birds migrate at night, they cry out. These cries keep the birds together and help the lost ones to return to the flock.

Birds don’t learn to sing, it is an inborn instinct. Some birds do learn the songs of other birds. For example, a parrot can imitate the sound which it hears.

 

Below Birds info from Wikipedia (Read More):-

Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 3 m (10 ft) Ostrich. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 150–200 Ma (million years ago), and the earliest known bird is the Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx, c 155–150 Ma. Most paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event approximately 65.5 Ma.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviours including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life. Other species have breeding systems that are polygynous ("many females") or, rarely, polyandrous ("many males"). Eggs are usually laid in a nest and incubated by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds

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