{"id":34822,"date":"2020-07-14T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=34822"},"modified":"2020-07-18T01:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T05:18:54","slug":"sparrows-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=34822","title":{"rendered":"Sparrows of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"White-throated Sparrow Sings - 4k\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXsiA6wcdSA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ran across a fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2020\/07\/new-sparrow-birdsong-replaces-old-tune\/\">article<\/a> in National Geographic about white-throated sparrows across Canada. In the last two decades, these birds have changed one of their calls from a three-note call to a two-note call. In the article, the audios of both calls are included and you can hear the distinct difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Although some bird calls undergo slow revolutions, this rapid shift in a bird\u2019s song has never been observed before,\u2019 says Ken Otter, lead author of the study, published July 2 in the journal Current Biology. \u2018There\u2019s nothing that we know of that\u2019s spread like this.\u2019&#8221;<br \/>\nThis new song was first noticed in the late 1990s in northern British Columbia and by 2015 every sparrow west of central Ontario was singing this new tune. It\u2019s still spreading in western Quebec, nearly 2,000 miles from where he had started.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Podos, who studies birdsongs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst says that the pace at which the song is spreading is \u201c\u2026somewhat surprising. It\u2019s like a blue wave.\u201d<br \/>\nThat phrase struck me. Sometimes, phenomena in nature parallels or portends events in the world of humans. Is it a synchronicity &#8211; or wishful thinking &#8211; that may point to a blue wave on election day?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2020\/07\/new-sparrow-birdsong-replaces-old-tune\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"smartbody text parbase section has-p\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I ran across a fascinating article in National Geographic about white-throated sparrows across Canada. In the last two decades, these birds have changed one of their calls from a three-note call to a two-note call. 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