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Comment on if all birds sing and if they do why do geese honk, ducks quack, and chickens bawk?

sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I would say not all birds sing, mainly just song birds sing. Lots of other birds don’t sing either like crows, woodpeckers, jays, pelicans, eagles, hawks, owls, etc.

Note: I’m not any kind of bird expert, so it is possible some of the birds that I listed have a song-like call that I’m unfamiliar with or am forgetting about.

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adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah; crows have mating songs.

But it’s all about two things: attracting a mate and avoiding predators.

Some birds use sound for that. Other birds use visual displays, aerobatics, sheer viciousness, or other physical traits. Some use combinations of the above. Like everything else, what works will survive to be used by the next generation.

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bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Just take a look at the shoebill stork. If this is singing than me dragging my nails across chalkboard should be qualified as opera

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- Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh gosh! It sounds like the russian was coming.
  It’s probably because of its problem in pronouncing the “i” correctly. (Probably only Germans will get that joke)
  
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MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And then there’s the superb lyrebird…

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Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Crows, jays and woodpeckers are songbirds too.

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- MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  that’s mostly just pecking and squeaking or schreeching
  
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  - Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Woodpeckers also do twitter.
    
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