WHY DO BIRDS SING

WHY DO BIRDS SING

The Song of birds is one of the loveliest sounds in nature.Sometimes when we are out in -the country and we hear birds singing,it seems to us they are calling back and forth , that they are tellling one another somthing.The fact is that the birds do communicate with one another,just as many other animals do.Of cours ,at times sound of birds make are expressions of joy ,just as we make cries of 'oh!,,and ..Ah!..But for the most part,the sounds that birds make are attempts at communication .A mother hen makes sounds that warn her chicks of danger and causes them to crouch down motionless.Then she gives another call which collects them together.When wild birds migrate at night,they cry out.These cries make the birds together and help lost one return to the flock.But the language of the birds is language as we use it.We use words to express ideas,and these words have to be learned.Birds don't learn their language.it is inborn instinct with them.In one experiment,for example,chicks were kept away from cocks and hens so the could'nt hear sounds just as well as chicks had grown up with cocks with cocks and hens!

This dos'nt mean that birds can't learn how to sing.In fact,some birds can learn the songs of other birds.This is how the mockingbirds gets its name,If a sparrow id brought up with canaries, it will make great efforts to sing like a canary .If a canary is brought up with a nightingale,it give quite a good imitation of the nightingale's song.And we all know how a parrot can imitate the sounds it hears.So we must say that while birds are born with the instinct to sing,some learning takes place,too.