• Question: When did you discovered the most fascinating pattern that birds do?

    Asked by Joansauleda to Rupert on 7 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 7 Mar 2017:

      I think the most fascinating pattern I have seen was a corn bunting song from the island of South Uist in Scotland. The song syllables looked like a honey dipping stick. I discovered it about four summers ago. I was just sitting in the field, recording this new bird singing and noticed a very different pattern on my laptop screen. Sadly this song dialect is now extinct – the birds that sang it have disappeared. The species is endangered, on the “red list”.

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