Coincidentally, there is a very informative article on this in today’s Post.

Norm Lewis
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> On Jul 5, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Pam Piombino <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Good question and nice link.  Thanks to both, Pam
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:13 PM Sandra Laursen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't know the answer, but can recommend the piece by Sarah Zhang in the 
>> Atlantic Monthly, with recordings and sonograms
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/07/bird-song-sparrows/613768/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 6:59:33 PM UTC-6, Willem van Vliet wrote:
>>> 
>>> A study, just published, shows the progressive eastward adoption of a 
>>> doublet-ending song among white-throated sparrows, replacing the 
>>> traditional triplet ending.  The researchers found that birds from 
>>> different dialect groups overwinter together and suggest song tutoring 
>>> during this time is a facilitating factor 
>>> (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30771-5.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982220307715%3Fshowall%3Dtrue).
>>> 
>>> Is there any information on how white-throated sparrows in Colorado fit 
>>> into this trend?
>>> 
>>> Willem van Vliet--
>>> Boulder County
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