Why do birds sing?

Answer 1

Birds sing for many reasons: to greet each other, to define their territories, to let their parents know they're hungry, to attract a mate, to warn each other of approaching danger and to tell each other about good feeding spots. Go outside and listen for yourself!

Answer 2

Every morning at dawn, the birds start chirping here, "harolds of the morn." They are able to communicate moods of happiness, stress and readiness to breed. The males typically have more vocal ranges than a female, as they are the ones auditioning to the females for the job of prospective mates. She is looking for Mr Goodgene by the "singing skills" she can hear in his voice.

Answer 3

Flying around is great fun but there is a threshold beyond which even that becomes boring. What else is there to do? If they had hands they wouldn't sing so much - or perhaps they would sing even more.

Answer 4

Birds sing too claim terrority, in their enviroment.

Answer 5

you thinck that they sing but they speack like that
the people can sing and speack together in the hip-hop style
maybe the birds are some rap singers or somthing
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Answer 6

I have heard that they are announcing their territory. I have noticed that they are loudest in the morning and evening. I have also noticed birds gathered together in the late fall and chattering loudly as if they are discussing their migration southward.

Answer 7

they dont sing its just that when they breathe the voice box is right above the wind pipe the noise comes out
they do it during mating season or to give warning

Answer 8

They do not sing, they whilstle and chirp cause they dont know the words, but like us, like the tune

Answer 9

Depends on the bird and the situation... below are excerpts explaining common reasons for bird song.

Birds sing for many reasons: to greet each other, to define their territories, to let their parents know they're hungry, to attract a mate, to warn each other of approaching danger and to tell each other about good feeding spots. Go outside and listen for yourself!

The Different Ways Birds Communicate
Walk outside anywhere in the world in the early morning, and you will most likely hear a song or call of a bird. Birds normally will sing in the early morning hours, others will continue singing throughout the day, while the nocturnal birds wait until the night. Why do birds make these sounds?

To keep enough personal space around them: Birds may call to each other while roosting or feeding, sometimes called flock calls. These sounds, sometimes made by hundreds of birds at a time, help the birds make known their personal space, either for feeding, resting, or moving.

To attract a mate: In many species, the only the male birds sing, attracting attention from the potential females around.

To establish and defend a nesting territory: Once a male stakes out his territory to raise a family, he may announce to the world where those boundaries are by flying to an area, singing, flying to another side, singing, and so forth.

Parent birds may also protest loudly to scare off intruders into their territory.

To identify parents or chicks: In large breeding colonies, sometimes numbering thousands of birds, parents and chicks find each other by calling to each other.

To indicate food or hunger: Parents will call when they have food or if there is danger to avoid. Chicks will let their parents know, at times very loudly, if they are hungry and to feed them immediately.

To keep from colliding with other birds while flying: Sometimes birds flying in a large flock will call out to each other. These sounds, called flight calls, are thought to let birds know how close they are to each other, avoiding collisions and to let others know if they are keeping together.

To show emotion: Birds, like many other animals, show jealousy, anger, fright, joy as well as other emotions, once thought only humans exhibited. Noisy squabbles will break out between birds.

To call for help: When a predator attacks a nest or a bird, a distress call may be made. Many times any bird in the vacinity, regardless of species, may come to the aid of the victim bird, mobbing the attacker. This call will also let other birds know that there is danger nearby.

To find each other: If a flock of birds is scattered and needs to get back together, one bird may initiate a flocking call, to rally everyone back together.


Why Do Birds Sing?
Robert Service
Let poets piece prismatic words,
Give me the jewelled joy of birds!

What ecstasy moves them to sing?
Is it the lyric glee of Spring,
The dewy rapture of the rose?
Is it the worship born in those
Who are of Nature's self a part,
The adoration of the heart?

Is it the mating mood in them
That makes each crystal note a gem?
Oh mocking bird and nightingale,
Oh mavis, lark and robin - hail!
Tell me what perfect passion glows
In your inspired arpeggios?

A thrush is thrilling as I write
Its obligato of delight;
And in its fervour, as in mine,
I fathom tenderness divine,
And pity those of earthy ear
Who cannot hear . . . who cannot hear.

Let poets pattern pretty words:
For lovely largesse - bless you, Birds!

Answer 10

birds sing because its one of their nature. their life bocomes more meaningful if they sing. that is why some people sing to ease up some pressures in life.