Article 5FE72 How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs

How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs

by
Graham Readfearn
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5FE72)

New study suggests young regent honeyeaters are not getting the chance to learn mating calls

What happens to a species if the music starts to die, or when their songs become corrupted or their singers have never heard the original tunes?

A new study has found that a loss of melody and song could be a bad sign for one of Australia's rarest songbirds - the regent honeyeater.

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