Identify birdsongs : Song Sleuthr
Now you can identify birdsongs in the field in real time. Just point Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results.
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RelInfo: washingtonpost.com "To Get Fed, Some Birds Wing It"
Horsfield's hawk-cuckoos of East Asia do not cheep much, but they do flap their wings a lot when begging for food. Keita Tanaka and Keisuke Ueda of Rikkyo University in Japan wondered whether the yellowish, beak-colored patch under the hawk-cuckoo's wings might be tricking the adults into providing more food by making them think there are more beaks in the nest.
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