Birdland: Eye On The Sparrow
The Song Sparrow’s playlist is vast and varied — these birds sing as many as 20 different tunes with as many as 1,000 variations. A study this year by Duke University found that males memorize a 30-minute long playlist of their songs and use that information to curate both their current playlist and the next one. The study suggests that male Song Sparrows deliberately shuffle and repeat their songs, possibly to keep a female’s attention. This Song Sparrow was photographed at Bluff Lake just east of Park Hill by Mark Silverstein.