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The State of the Natural Environment Report claims native bird species such as the lesser spotted woodpecker, turtle dove and song thrush, as well as many butterfly species, have suffered.
BBC: Gloucestershire's countryside 'under threat'
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"But the fact that two species have the same song is actually a pretty weird finding, " said Joe Tobias from Oxford's Edward Grey Institute, who led the research.
BBC: Songbirds sing cross-species duet
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He added that the team did find that the presence of lower frequency elements in a song was predictive of whether a species' abundance would be affected by noise.
BBC: Traffic noise driving songbirds to the limit in cities
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Many people spotted more blackbirds and song thrushes, and other less common species.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Fewer birds spotted in UK gardens
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The researchers from Oxford University believe this is the first evidence of two separate species having evolved the same territorial song.
BBC: Songbirds sing cross-species duet
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Their genetic "bar codes, " based on DNA sequences unrelated to appearance or song, completely overlap meaning that the species cannot be identified from genetic fingerprinting.
WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Possible Formation of a Species | Mind & Matter
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Researchers looking for a nocturnal bird in Indonesia accidentally identified a new species of owl one that has a distinct whistling song and is believed to exist nowhere else in the world.
NPR: Brown-And-White Whistling Owl ID'd As New Species
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Bob Marley, the late reggae star known for messages of peace and understanding as well as a song about shooting a sheriff, is the latest cultural icon to have a species names after him, according to a news release from the National Science Foundation.
CNN: Newly discovered ocean critter named after Bob Marley