{"id":25725,"date":"2016-06-09T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2016-06-10T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:51:08","slug":"baby-birds-learn-calls-from-their-mothers-while-still-in-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/baby-birds-learn-calls-from-their-mothers-while-still-in-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Birds Learn Calls From Their Mothers While Still in the Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fairywrens.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fairywrens-720x461.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fairywrens-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fairywrens-480x307.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Fairywrens.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Males fairywrens are often brilliantly colored. Red-backed Fairywren by Joe Welklin, Superb Fairywren by F STOP via Birdshare.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Nine species of fairywrens live in Australia, including Red-backed Fairywren (left) and Superb Fairywren (right). Males are often dazzlingly colored. <em>Photos by Joe Welklin (left) and <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/E7EnBW\">F STOP<\/a> (right) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/birdshare\/\">Birdshare<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sidebar-alignright sidebar-space order-bottom\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" id=\"hs-cta-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]--><a href=\"http:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/95627\/a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/95627\/a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3.png\"  alt=\"New self-paced course: Learn How to Identify Bird Songs, Click to Learn More\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(95627, 'a8fe3c9a-217b-40fd-b1ff-2bb76ebe2cf3', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n<!--<span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\">\r\n    <span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\" id=\"hs-cta-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\">-->\r\n        <!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]-->\r\n        <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/95627\/394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\"  target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/95627\/394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd.png\"  alt=\"Join the Cornell Lab\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\r\n    <\/span>\r\n    <script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script>\r\n    <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n        hbspt.cta.load(95627, '394b2cc2-4447-4677-b18b-d2f2de5b57cd', {});\r\n    <\/script>\r\n<\/span>-->\r\n<!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Rather like an expectant human mother playing Mozart to her unborn child, some mother fairywrens call softly to their eggs. Now, two recent studies conclude that two species of fairywrens can hear their mothers and even learn elements of her calls while still inside the egg.<\/p>\n<p>Imitating their mother\u2019s calls may ensure they are fed as nestlings, helping to distinguish them from the cuckoo nestlings that sometimes show up in nests. Retaining key elements of her call throughout their lives may also serve as a family \u201cpassword\u201d long after the young have grown and are raising chicks of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Fairywrens are small Australian songbirds. Nine species occur on the continent\u00a0where they\u00a0can be\u00a0common suburban birds, in places <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/evolution-in-the-chickadee-of-the-outback-the-red-backed-fairywren\/\">as familiar as chickadees<\/a> are in the U.S. The males are often brilliantly colored in glittering blue or red, and the species&#8217; unusual breeding habits have made their behavior a popular research topic for decades.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio \"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Superb-Fairy-wren_Incubation-Call-Mon-1.mp3\" title=\"\"><\/audio><figcaption>Example of a mother Superb Fairywren&#8217;s incubation call. The researchers found that, while chicks were still in the egg, they could hear and begin to learn these calls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--[audio mp3=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Superb-Fairy-wren_Incubation-Call-Mon-2.mp3\"]A mother Superb Fairywren's incubation call.[\/audio]\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>A series of experiments on Superb Fairywrens led by Diane Colombelli-N\u00e9grel and Sonia Kleindorfer of Australia\u2019s Flinders University suggested the embryos were learning while still in the egg\u2014contradicting a long-held view that embryos have limited learning abilities. Even among humans, it&#8217;s only been in the past few years that research has shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2013\/08\/babies-learn-recognize-words-womb\">an unborn baby can begin to learn the sounds of speech when it is 30 weeks old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer-720x664.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer-768x708.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer-1280x1180.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer-480x442.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SFWren-Kinzer.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"A female Superb Fairywren in Victoria, Australia. Photo by Aaron Kinzer via Birdshare.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Female Superb Fairywrens (above) and Red-backed Fairywrens call to their eggs while incubating them. The developing embryos hear and learn her calls. <em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qjRKb9\">Aaron Kinzer<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/birdshare\/\">Birdshare<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt took us nearly four years to convince other people that this is happening\u201d in fairywrens, said Colombelli-N\u00e9grel. \u201cFinding [vocal embryonic learning] in an animal, especially a songbird was pretty fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experiments with Superb Fairywrens showed the embryos lowered their heart rates when listening to the soft calls produced by their mother during incubation, a sign of attention in humans and other animals.<\/p>\n<p>Because the finding in Superb Fairywrens was so unexpected, Colombelli-N\u00e9grel and colleagues expanded the research to include a separate species, the Red-backed Fairywren. That&#8217;s when Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers Jen\u00e9lle Dowling and Mike Webster joined the team.<\/p>\n<p>Colombelli-N\u00e9grel and colleagues used microphones at 67 Red-backed Fairywren nests over a 4-year period to capture the soft calls the mother birds made to their eggs. The calls began soon after laying and continued for several days after hatching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sounds the mom makes to the eggs sometimes sound like a spaceship\u2014it\u2019s a really interesting sound, really varied with lots of modulation,\u201d Dowling said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Calls given by a mother Red-backed Fairywren during incubation<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio \"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mom-in-nest-call.mp3\" title=\"\"><\/audio><figcaption>Example of a mother Red-backed Fairywren&#8217;s incubation calls. The spectrogram below shows details of the calls&#8217; frequency (pitch) over time. <em>Recorded December 2011 in Herberton, Queensland, by Jen\u00e9lle Dowling.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n              <figure class=\"size-large alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-inNest-notitle.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-inNest-notitle-720x186.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-inNest-notitle-768x199.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-inNest-notitle-480x124.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-inNest-notitle.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Calls given by a mother Red-backed Fairywren during incubation.<\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure>\n            <\/div>\n<p>Soon after hatching, the chicks start begging for food, reproducing some of the same sounds they heard in the egg. But the researchers still had a question to settle: had the chicks really learned their mother&#8217;s calls, or did they make the sounds instinctually?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo determine if this was actual learning versus genetic predisposition, we switched Superb Fairywren eggs among nests,\u201d Colombelli-N\u00e9grel said. \u201cWhen the chicks hatched, they produced calls more similar to those made by their foster mother than their genetic mother, which shows they had been listening in the egg.\u201d Subsequent experiments with Red-backed Fairywrens found that parents gave more food to nestlings that had calls similar to their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning calls in the egg is like an elegant password system that mothers may use to assure they are raising their own chicks,\u201d Dowling said. \u201cCuckoos often leave their eggs in a fairywren nest. If a nestling can\u2019t reproduce the mother\u2019s signature sounds, it could be a cuckoo chick and it might not get fed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, the researchers investigated whether the calls the chicks learn in the egg are retained in their adult songs, the songs they will sing for the rest of their lives. This investigation challenged the conventional assumption that chicks do not begin to learn their adult songs until they are at least 10 days old. Because human ears are not up to the task of parsing the frenetic burbling of fairywren song, the researchers used spectrograms and computer analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Mother&#8217;s Full Song<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio \"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mom-Full-song.mp3\" title=\"\"><\/audio><figcaption>This is the same female Red-backed Fairywren as in the above example, singing her full song away from the nest. The scientists studied the songs in detail using spectrograms (below). <em>Recorded November 2011 in Herberton, Queensland, by Jen\u00e9lle Dowling<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n              <figure class=\"size-large alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-MOtherscall-notitle.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-MOtherscall-notitle-720x195.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-MOtherscall-notitle-768x208.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-MOtherscall-notitle-480x130.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectogram-MOtherscall-notitle.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>This spectrogram shows the mother fairywren&#8217;s song as a graph of frequency (pitch) over time. Compare it to her son&#8217;s song (below).<\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure>\n            <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Son&#8217;s Full Song<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio \"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Her-sons-adult-song.mp3\" title=\"\"><\/audio><figcaption>This is the song of the son of the Red-backed Fairywren in the above recording. <em>Recorded December 2013 in Herberton, Queensland, by Jen\u00e9lle Dowling<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n              <figure class=\"size-large alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectrogram-son-notitle.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectrogram-son-notitle-720x198.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectrogram-son-notitle-768x212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectrogram-son-notitle-480x132.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Spectrogram-son-notitle.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>The adult son of the Red-backed Fairywren in the above recording sings a similar song to the one his mother sings.<\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure>\n            <\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe compared every element sung by adult offspring to every element sung by mothers in the population,\u201d Dowling said. \u201cWe used a computer technique called dynamic time warping, which compares and aligns song elements at various time points. This provides a score for how similar the two elements are. The scores showed that each young bird\u2019s song was more similar to its mom\u2019s calls than to calls of any other female in the population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, even as adults, the Red-backed Fairywren offspring kept the key similarities to their mother\u2019s sounds. This too has benefits.<br \/>\nDowling said, \u201cThis whole field of study falls into the area of \u2018kin recognition\u2019 in which the birds may know who is related to whom because of these acoustic signatures. Kin recognition is important because birds and other animals tend to give preferential treatment to individuals they can identify as relatives, by providing information about food and warning of a predator nearby. It also helps to avoid inbreeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since embryos learn their mother\u2019s calls, and seem to reproduce them in their adult songs, this suggests that they start learning their adult songs while still in the egg. The fairywren research opens the door to all kinds of explorations into embryonic learning in other species of birds and mammals, and studies of when signals for kin recognition develop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group well-gray has-lightgray-background-color has-background\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p>Colombelli-N\u00e9grel, D., M.S. Webster, J.L. Dowling, M.E. Hauber, and S. Kleindorfer. 2016.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoucospubs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1642\/AUK-15-162.1\">Vocal imitation of mother\u2019s calls by begging Red-backed Fairywren nestlings increases parental provisioning<\/a>.<em>\u00a0Auk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dowling, J.L., D. Colombelli-N\u00e9grel, and M.S. Webster. 2016. Kin signatures learned in the egg? <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fevo.2016.00048\/abstract\">Red-Backed Fairy-Wren songs are similar to their mother\u2019s in-nest calls and songs<\/a>. <em>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Colombelli-N\u00e9grel, D., M.E. Hauber, and S.\u00a0Kleindorfer. 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/281\/1797\/20141154\">Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos<\/a>. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences<\/em>, <em>281<\/em>(1797), 20141154<\/p>\n<p>Colombelli-N\u00e9grel, D., M. E. Hauber, J. Robertson, F.J. Sulloway, H. Hoi, M. Griggio, and S. Kleindorfer. 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(12)01125-6\">Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings<\/a>. 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