Find a topic relating to bird vocalisation or sounds. Collect together informationreferences, links and videos and write a short summary of the topic (one paragraph).
Your You will present your background research to the class, and your notes will be collected and shared on the wiki, to form the basis of the the exhibition content.
This background research will inform the exhibition content. After the presentation, groups will be formed around topics based on individual interest (i.e you may change topic after the presentation if you wish) .
Possible Research topics:
- Why do birds sing (for attracting a partner/female, for territory defence)?
- Which other functions do bird’s sounds have (contact, predator alarm, ...)
- Role of sexes (mostly male sing but not always)
- Complexity of songs (two voices by one bird, microintervals, temporal resolution)
- Producing bird’s songs ourselves (or the history of reproducing bird songs)
- Birds imitate noise, sounds or other birds
- Orientation in bird’s concert
- Singing despite of noise (birds on rivers, birds in cities)
- Dawn concert
- Comparison of bird’s and human voices
- Sonation (birds making sounds through stridulation)