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How do birds communicate?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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Why Birds Sing in the Nonbreeding Season

There are times off season that birds are singing as well. And there's a couple ideas about why they could be singing in the nonbreeding season. They're getting sort of a rush of chemicals to their brains when they're singing, that is signaling them to continue singing. But how do songbirds know what songs to sing? Does their parents teach them?

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