{"id":5629,"date":"2017-06-06T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:14:04","slug":"a-hermit-thrushs-song-offers-a-note-on-its-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-hermit-thrushs-song-offers-a-note-on-its-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hermit Thrush&#8217;s song offers a note on its origin <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5630\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5630\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-19.jpg\" alt=\"A Hermit Thrush (Image via Flickr)\" width=\"571\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-19.jpg 571w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-19-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hermit Thrush (<em>Image <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/T7GJn5\">via Flickr<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sing me a song and I&#8217;ll tell you where you come from\u2014at least, that seems to be the case with Hermit Thrushes, according to a recent study. Researchers analyzed spectograms of Hermit Thrush songs, which revealed significant differences in song structures of three major populations\u2014Northern, Western Mountain and Western Lowland thrushes. And it sounds like the birds don&#8217;t wait to introduce themselves: variation between, as well as within different bird populations, is evident from the first whistles. Some of the variation likely dates back to isolation of bird populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean P. Roach and Leslie S. Phillmore<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean Roach, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Email: <a href=\"mailto:seanroach@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">seanroach@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanornithologypubs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1642\/AUK-16-222.1?code=coop-site\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published in <em>The Auk: Ornithological Advances<\/em> on May 24, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sing me a song and I&#8217;ll tell you where you come from\u2014at least, that seems to be the case with Hermit Thrushes, according to a recent study. Researchers analyzed spectograms of Hermit Thrush songs, which revealed significant differences in song structures of three major populations\u2014Northern, Western Mountain and Western Lowland thrushes. And it sounds like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2993,2992,2750],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-birdsong","tag-hermit-thrush","tag-ornithology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-19.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1sN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}