{"id":6186,"date":"2017-07-03T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T18:49:43","slug":"baby-birdies-babbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=6186","title":{"rendered":"Baby Birdies Babbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By late summer, one may begin to overhear garbled, tempo-less cacophonies of notes while out birding. From approximately August through until the following spring, \u201cbaby\u201d songbirds \u201cbabble\u201d as they take to learning and developing their songs.<!--more--> This long road to song crystallization (fully developed adult song) first begins with a period known as subsong. Subsong is akin to the babbling of infants and is an endearing attempt at singing. Often, subsong at<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tempts are drawn- out, structureless rambles of notes. Take for example this lil\u2019 baby Sedge Wren giving its song a go: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xeno-canto.org%2F211425&amp;h=ATOjPAhDjtZ-rzIXt-jAiCIA-TPnf5fn9F9EWhPtZqMukRHwzwf9_h2TXjm6oRIqRhXvjWrBeMhYANEVmlnooAlwoiQhoJD2eUsBa1BaQHUCYx9ShsDh-Yz49rXHGPgAPpOKwc94ecM_kCcClGg&amp;enc=AZPwWWcdJvHPnIxIcZH1Z_BkVs168tIUN_cz_o3nZD-6GEWDFQMpbkehP2ium6eGbJzZrg-fvk-mQts6_w8JzRETXcUqBNx7tb4_1fJZuwmkYqnaZbLAe-DZvqZdk57CWkG28lVrsFsBur5rrbNMX_raRJ50oLrRhmz1PLMa6C4PUQ&amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/211425<\/a>. As a bird begins to \u2018work the kinks out\u2019, it advances to the following stage of development, known as the plastic song. In this stage, discreet phrases emerge as does a semblance of the final product, the fully crystallized song. A banner such as \u201cnot quite there yet, but keep trying!\u201d is appropriate for birds in their plastic song phase. Take for example this White-throated Sparrow. The classic song is emerging, but there\u2019s still some work to do.<span class=\"_5mfr _47e3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/fb0\/1.5\/16\/1f609.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xeno-canto.org%2F33227&amp;h=ATOovmUoCgy8s5nTicTxWTYVMAK7rFqM5alFLJ72mRonyTTIEuIzJ2iMyVbN6n2pDfRM2vPF5SHeU3uF-nRCAaGjwy9VbHeObiDsTwchA4q18dMQt97o9xxZIFij9ukKSRINfxNk9-3C4-dCc7o&amp;enc=AZMYi8XdU7oPEMIe8y-vAvnTATVn01Nv04WHf72_nOyKeUVXTNUKiQGuH0dnOmNwAsberm2E_wrfRVS0yoNGn7nEHD1NxsRRYE8vDCuKBcdC6wM_sQrPV332Dc2GVQjto5MfL-J4-1HnNRqlsWLCtzKg1UPxaKp6X9i1YeyiRK9w2Q&amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/33227<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/73.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6188\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/73-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/73-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/73.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/colegallery.wordpress.com\/tag\/eileen-sorg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/colegallery.wordpress.com\/tag\/eileen-sorg\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By late summer, one may begin to overhear garbled, tempo-less cacophonies of notes while out birding. From approximately August through until the following spring, \u201cbaby\u201d songbirds \u201cbabble\u201d as they take to learning and developing their songs.<\/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-6186","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\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8360,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}