Comments on: Bird Ears Explained https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/ An encyclopedia of life on earth Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gordon https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-1016259 Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:05:36 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-1016259 In reply to Axel Drioli.

Not at the moment, sorry.

]]> By: Axel Drioli https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-1016155 Tue, 31 May 2022 07:09:02 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-1016155 In reply to Gordon.

Sounds exciting Gordon!
Do you know roughly when I could get in touch with you again? If ever? 🙂

]]> By: Gordon https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-1015935 Mon, 23 May 2022 02:46:56 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-1015935 In reply to Axel Drioli.

Hi Axel, I wrote this twenty years ago, and currently I am living and working 8,500 kilometers away from my library, so I am sorry, but I am not in a position to answer your question at the moment.

]]> By: Axel Drioli https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-15898 Sat, 21 May 2022 19:27:05 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-15898 “Bird ears also hear shorter notes than we can. Humans process sounds in bytes about 1/20 of a second long, whereas birds discriminate up to 1/200 of a second”

Where did you get this info? This aspect is fascinating but I can’t find scientific papers analysing it. Thanks

]]> By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-9326 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 05:48:05 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-9326 In reply to Renata M Schneider.

Sort of, there is an old study showing that loud, or continuous, noise can cause birds to go deaf (https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.heares.2019.107859), however in the 1990s it was discovered that birds can regenerate auditory hair cells (as can amphibians and reptiles – but not mammals), so this type of damage is not permanent in birds, see https://www.pnas.org/content/97/22/11714/ – I do not know of any studies focused particularly on airports (or other industrial noise) and birds, however that does not mean it does not exist.

]]> By: Renata M Schneider https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-9311 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:16:04 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-9311 Are there any studies on the level of decibels that damage hearing of birds? How do some birds live at and visit airports? Would a loud train going by (80-90 decibels) cause damage to the ear of a bird?

]]> By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-3528 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 03:26:45 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-3528 In reply to janice.

Different species have different levels of intelligence, so how much they associate your call with the feeding will vary. Have you read the page on bird intelligence Intelligence in birds.

]]> By: janice https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-3513 Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:13:02 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-3513 Hello: a landowner near where I live allows me to go in to his forest from October to March of each year to set up a tube feeder and a suet cage for the local birds. The feeders are visited by nuthatches, bluejays, cardinals, juncos and chickadees. When I enter the forest I make the same repetitive call to the birds to let them know I am there. Question: can any of the birds I mentioned remember my call and for how long (days weeks),

I know that the bluejays remember my car and I think they know my face .

Thanks
Janice
Tillsonburg, Ontario Canada

]]> By: Gordon Ramel https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-2794 Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:37:21 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-2794 In reply to Enrico Cavina.

A valid point, I will add something about it.

]]> By: Enrico Cavina https://earthlife.net/bird-ears-and-hearing-in-birds/#comment-2773 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:43:23 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=428#comment-2773 ……and what about the PTO f Vitali ( middle ear ) ? Barometric sense ?

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