Bird vocalization
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"Everyone wants to understand art, why not try to understand the song of a bird?" --Pablo Picasso "So goodbye to the Platonic Forms. They are teretismata, and have nothing to do with our speech." --Posterior Analytics, Aristotle "And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"" --Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Birds of Venezuela (1973) by Jean-Claude Roché |
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Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, (relatively complex) songs are distinguished by function from (relatively simple) calls.
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See also
- Animal communication
- Animal language
- Anti-exhaustion hypothesis, birdsong
- Bioacoustics
- Biomusic
- Biophony
- Cock a doodle doo
- Dawn chorus (birds)
- Edwin Birdsong
- Flight call
- Language of the birds
- Lateralization of bird song
- Lombard effect
- Talking bird
- Vinkensport
- Vocal learning
- Birdcalls (Louise Lawler)
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