However, when young of the same species were exposed to taped recordings of a wild chaffinch song (tutor songs), they sang species-specific songs as adults. This demonstrated that birds must learn ...

The less nimble ‘ground-feeding’ birds such as robins, dunnocks, blackbirds, and chaffinches, to name just a few, were limited to scavenging for scraps on the floor beneath the feeders and ...