{"id":2358,"date":"2016-04-19T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:37:07","slug":"a-note-about-duets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"Bird Duets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some species, such as the Red-winged Blackbird and the Brown-headed Cowbird, male\/female pairs partake in &#8216;duetting&#8217; during pair formation. During a typical Brown-headed Cowbird duet, the male produces a high-pitched squeak and the female produces a lower-pitched, rattling trill.<!--more--> Below is a screen cap of a duetting pair (male sound at the top; female sound below). This duet can be heard at this time of year and though it&#8217;s not the most enchanting of the duets, <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">it&#8217;s still pretty neat! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/XC160737-large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2359 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/XC160737-large-264x300.png\" alt=\"XC160737-large\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/XC160737-large-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/XC160737-large.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Screen cap of spectrograph taken from Xeno Canto; XC160737.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elliot, L. 1999. Music of the Birds: <em>A Celebration of Birdsong<\/em>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt., Boston, MA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some species, such as the Red-winged Blackbird and the Brown-headed Cowbird, male\/female pairs partake in &#8216;duetting&#8217; during pair formation. During a typical Brown-headed Cowbird duet, the male produces a high-pitched squeak and the female produces a lower-pitched, rattling trill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}