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Chipping Sparrow
For weeks now, walking along Salisbury Road, Blue Spring Road, Jackson Avenue, and Garfield Way, I have been picking up the dry, mechanical trill of Chipping Sparrows from the pines and conifers lining the streets. I started keeping a rough tally. Six, sometimes eight on a single walk. They are clearly there. They just rarely bother to show themselves. So I was not entirely surprised when one turned up in the sassafras tree outside the kitchen window. Surprised enough to grab the camera, but […]
preach!!!!
(more context on the not silent enough for #SilentSunday i posted last night)
#Birds #Birding #Songbirds #Passerines #Neotropics #Wetland #Forest #Singing #Cute #Yellow #BirdPhotography
17-Apr-2026
Songbird brains can generate new #neurons. Can we help human brains do the same?
New Boston University study shines fresh light on how #songbirds' #brains refresh themselves; it could one day open the door to new human therapies
Why the lack of neurogenesis in adults may be an evolved positive trait in mammals. In song birds:
“... as the new neurons move through the brain, they seem to be pushing or deforming the tissue,” Scott says. “You could imagine that they might be altering the circuit, breaking connections that are the basis of stored memories.”
Commentary on:
"Songbird connectome reveals tunneling of migratory neurons in the adult striatum", Shvedov et al. 2026
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.057
15-Apr-2026
#Birds caught stealing from their neighbors
Branch bandits pose a hidden threat to native species
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