Bird Seeing

Dedicated to the idea that birds are worth understanding from their point of view. It should be obvious that most of my bird watching is done in a small courtyard described in The Phantom Bird Feeder. We've noted that within a species there is a wide range of behavior related to individual bird's personality. Either inadvertently or purposefully, we conduct little experiments observing the range of reactions across species and within the species.

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Location: Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Do Wrens sing in the hypersonic range?

I have observed and videotaped Wrens chirping on my fence. They go through an exagerated body movement that involves them standing up on their legs as part of the effort of singing.

What has been interesting to me is that the Wrens sometimes will go through the same movements at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of their calling, but there is no apparent sound.

I hypothosized that part of the Wren's song is ultrasonic. I haven't found any research suggesting this on the internet, so I thought I would ask you to pass this to someone who might know and/or be interested in pursuing this further.

I would like to, but ultrasonic microphones cost more than I can invest. If you know how I can borrow such eqipment from some nearby resource, I would like to explore it determining if my theory is correct.

I suspect that ultrasonic sound plays a much greater role among many bird species that we are currently aware. It might take a while, because I havent seen may birds of any kind in the last two or three weeks. Prior to that, our courtyard was as active as a nature preserve with up to 15 birds of differing varieties coming there at a one time in addition to several chipmunks and a squirrel.

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