Town Birds No Match For Country Flock

The Telegraph had an interesting article about bird attraction – or lack of in this case. A survey suggests that city and rural birds do not get on with each other – just like us humans – because they aren’t attracted to each others songs!

A survey of the garden bird across Britain has shown that in urban and city areas that are quite noisy the birds pitch their songs higher than in quieter, rural areas. When recordings were played to birds from differing urban and rural locations the birds failed to respond to the recorded songs.

The scientists suggest that male great tit birds pitch their songs higher to be heard over the urban noise.