"The songs, sounds and sights of female birds have historically been overlooked in field guides and sound archives. In 2016, just 0.01% of the bird sounds in the global Xeno-Canto sound library were labelled female."
"Female birds sing for territorial displays, to ward off other females and to attract extra males, according to Lucy McRobert, a writer and researcher who studied the issue for the guidebook."
"We've got a completely false narrative around female bird sounds and female birdsong. The common narrative is that males sing to compete for territory and female attention."
"Many species have female song repertoires and you can separate some males and females by song. Male European ornithologists were not simply sexist, they exported their assumptions about male birdsong."
Female birdsong has been historically underrepresented in birding literature and sound archives. A new guidebook aims to highlight the importance of female vocalizations. Female birds sing for various reasons, including territorial displays and attracting mates. The guidebook includes a library of 300 sounds from 200 species, emphasizing the complexity of female birdsong. Research shows that female birds have their own song repertoires, which can help distinguish them from males. The narrative surrounding bird sounds has been overly simplistic, neglecting the contributions of female birds.
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