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The Silent Language of Birds When streams get too loud for interlopers to hear their territorial songs, these songbirds use their distinctive eyelids instead.

Blinking dippers in Nautilus magazine

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Stream noise induces song plasticity and a shift to visual signals in a riverine songbird Using calibrated audio recordings and behavioral observations, de Framond et al. show that dippers adjust blinking with their white eyelids in tandem with song adjustments to communicate along noisy r...

Our new paper: "Stream noise induces song plasticity and a shift to visual signals in a riverine songbird", out now in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...