Andrew Skeoch

So how widespread it is within the Melophagidae, the honey eaters, I don't know, but it's really interesting that this family of birds, at least among some of its members and different genuses too, has developed this intimate song between the roosting pair.

Fascinating.

singing in the dawn chorus is inherited it's part of the bird's dna that they they do this but the way that they do it is collaborative that they listen to each other they learn from each other they respond to each other their behaviors of of sing not only singing but listening the kind of spaces that they have in their repertoire for doing that listening is is very sophisticated and very they're not just

They're not jamming.

They're like classical musicians.

They're getting it absolutely spot on because otherwise the communication process doesn't work properly.

And coming back to what I was saying earlier about the yellow tufteds here and the white ears, it is so important that it's done in a particular way that it actually shapes other things in their behavior such as where they actually live, their place in the landscape.

You just don't hear this overseas.

You hear different things, you know, virtuosity and soloing and so on, but you don't get that patterning.

So it, I think nature really pointed me in this direction of being interested in, in what we're hearing in this country.