song

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Zoology: ornithology & bird-watching
aerie
birder
birding
birdwatcher
birdwatching
eggshell
feeding station
flighted
flightless
hide
hover
incubate
incubation
incubator
ornithological
ornithologist
ornithology
twitcher
twitching

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Animal (non-human) sounds

Examples of birdsong

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The data reported for birdsong learning also show increased variance at the end of a hypothesized sensitive period, suggesting some generality to the phenomenon.
By the 1970s, most of the harmonies used in birdsong passages could also be found in non-birdsong passages of the same works.
In vocabulary development, second language learning, and birdsong learning, we don't know what the true story is.
He also went on boat trips, greatly enjoying the spring flowers and birdsong.
Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates.
From birdsong to street sounds, this may be more common than is evident.
By the eighteenth century birdsong imitations and percussive sound effects were occasionally incorporated.
It encourages us into the fascinating world of birdsong.
The birdsong data are the closest thing in nature that we have to the hypothetical example of a person entering a coma.
The birdsong poetically expresses a joy in good fortune and a happy destiny.
Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than the calls of other primates.
Moreover, the level of sophistication in itself marks a departure from virtually all precedents, especially in the realm of birdsong.
In nature birdsong tends to be either 'closed' and progresses through simple repetition, or 'open' and develops through the addition, subtraction, modification or interpenetration of fragments.
Birdsong (1994) criticized the methodology employed, noting that it ignores "response bias" (a propensity to judge sentences as ungrammatical) as a potential explanation.
A striking number of the chords used to harmonize the birdsong in the mature works had a previous existence in works of the 1930s and 1940s.
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