The Benefits of Quiet City Life

Researchers found that white crowned sparrows who live in the country barely had any changes to the volume or pitch of their songs. Some songbirds have even changed their tweets to work around our schedules. When most places shut down at the start of the COVID pandemic, scientists had a rare chance to see how songbirds behaved when cities got quieter.

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