Eastern phoebe
Chapter 3: Why and How Birds Sing
Subchapter: Singing in the brain
From page 35 in the book.
Photo by Wil Hershberger
♫111. The two innate songs of the eastern phoebe, which have no songbird-like song learning centers in their brains. In this selection, the male alternates his two song forms, the FEE-bee with the buzzy bee and the FEE-b-bre-be with the stuttered b-bre-be. June 2, 2008. Prairie State Park, Mindenmines, Missouri. (1:31)