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Male great tits respond to the calls of other males by calling back rapidly, and thus overlapping the incoming call with their own.
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Huge Himalayan vultures wheel eye-level with the road, while tiny tits inhabit a range of vegetation, from conifers and cedars to broadleaved oaks and rhododendrons.
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That suggests hunger and parasites affect song in different ways a fact that tits are, no doubt, acutely aware of when they size each other up.
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Mr Ricketts said trust staff had cleared litter after "numerous events" at the site, which is also home to about 60 species of birds including kestrels and long-tailed tits.
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Scientists also recorded countryside great tits and found they sang at a lower pitch and, in turn, city birds found the rural droll difficult to understand, the study found.
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Prince Jefri's assets were also frozen, although it was not clear whether that included the 2, 000 cars, 17 aircraft and a luxury yacht called Tits, which he is also said to own.
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The singing was played back to rural male tits during the breeding season when they are at their most aggressive, but there was a "slower and weaker" response than normal from the countryside birds.
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