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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Thus, the cooing sound of a pigeon is not a bird song.

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Behold the Blue-footed Booby

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The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.

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