City birds are better

Did the rural readers get their feathers ruffled over that headline? The Daily Mail reports that urban birds (blackbirds, house finches, great tits, and song sparrows) sing higher songs than their country cousins. High notes create fewer echoes and carry further. Remember that when you’re whistling for a cab.

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Garden Melodies—-If the North Pole were Taliesin North, this would be the right gingerbread house. A Santa hat tip to art journalist Carol Kino for spotting this.

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