I Thought I Noticed Something Different!

"Quarantine has made birds more sultry.

"The coronavirus shutdown has had a huge, unintended but generally positive impact on nature — including, new research has found, making birds sing softer, sweeter and sexier.

“'When noise levels dropped during the shutdown, their songs actually sounded sexier to other birds in the population,” lead author Dr. Elizabeth Derryberry told the BBC of her study, “Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown,” published Thursday in the journal Science." Hannah Frishberg, NY Post, September 25, 2020

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