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Description: Article describing how birds learn their songs from adult tutors and may incorporate sounds from other species into their repertoire.
any species of songbirds learn the specific song elements of their repertoires from one or more adult tutors, most often from the male parent. Such learning, for at least some species, is not confined to the period prior to sexual maturity. For example, territorial male Swamp Sparrows listen to songs from adjacent territorial males and incorporate those songs into their own repertoire. Generally, this type of vocal copying, where the individual copied (the model) is a member of the same species, is referred to as "vocal imitation" and serves as the basic mechanism underlying the evolution of dialect systems -- variation in songs among local populations.
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