Sentences with phrase «of the hermit thrush»

But the song of the hermit thrush challenges that conclusion.

Bruno Gingras (University of Vienna) and Dominik Endres (Philipps University of Marburg) then used two different statistical methods to demonstrate that the notes of the hermit thrush song were, in most cases, simple integer multiples of a base frequency, corresponding to an overtone series.

A spectrogram of a Hermit Thrush song shows the whistled introductory note (the horizontal bar at left) and the more complex song that follows.

Sean Roach and Leslie Phillmore of Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University gathered recordings of Hermit Thrush songs from a number of databases, accumulating a sample of 100 individuals recorded across North America between 1951 and 2015.

«Genetic studies of Hermit Thrushes in North America have defined three different groups of subspecies, with major splits most likely occurring as a consequence of two glaciation events.

Not exact matches

«Out of the same brush pile we have flushed the common hermit thrush of the northeast, the one that comes from the western U.S. and a race common in Alaska.

ONCE described as the finest sound in nature, for centuries birdwatchers have compared the song of the North American hermit thrush to human music.

The hermit thrush is a common, medium - sized, North American songbird whose song has attracted the attention of ornithologists and musicologists for more than a century.

The authors controlled for other possible explanations, such as the possibility that hermit thrushes could select notes using the resonances of their vocal tract in a manner similar to wind instruments like the alphorn.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

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