Bird Watching: Daily Pics Vol 190, 1 by dirt_in_ozone7b

dirt_in_ozone7b wrote:
Did you know that the White Crowned Sparrow is one of the most studied of and Cornell U had this interesting observation--

A young male White-crowned Sparrow learns the basics of the song it will sing as an adult during the first two or three months of its life. It does not learn directly from its father, but rather from the generalized song environment of its natal neighborhood.
Because male White-crowned Sparrows learn the songs they grew up with and do not travel far from where they were raised, song dialects frequently form. Males on the edge of two dialects may be bilingual and able to sing both dialects.

Which finally has solved a small mystery as why they rarely accept or want the usual feedings that most 'ordinary' birds do and in song unlike the
usual melody "I I I I gotta go wee wee wee now" ; these sing in a I am slightly more intellectual west coast slurr and say (quite clearly):
"latte grande extra shot extra shot no whipped no whipped cream"
presenting our version (up here in Seattle way) of this sparrow,
Zonotrichia leucophrys Starbuckformepleaseus