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Regent honeyeater: Endangered bird 'has forgotten its song'
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How Australia's regent honeyeaters are learning the wrong songs – video
New research has found that a loss of song culture could be a big problem for one of Australia’s rarest songbirds. A lack of adult males passing on mating calls to younger birds may have forced some to pick up the tunes of other species. Females are less likely to pair and nest with those singing unusual songs, causing further problems for dwindling populations. Conservationists are trying a new technique to arrest this decline, playing songs captured in the wild to birds bred in captivity
• How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs
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How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs
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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