Only the passerines (songbirds) sing.
Because not all birds are songbirds.
I wonder if some dinosaurs honked, etc., and others were songdinos.
So passerineodons?
I would say not all birds sing, mainly just song birds sing. Lots of other birds don’t sing either like crows, woodpeckers, jays, pelicans, eagles, hawks, owls, etc.
Note: I’m not any kind of bird expert, so it is possible some of the birds that I listed have a song-like call that I’m unfamiliar with or am forgetting about.
Just take a look at the shoebill stork. If this is singing than me dragging my nails across chalkboard should be qualified as opera
Yeah; crows have mating songs.
But it’s all about two things: attracting a mate and avoiding predators.
Some birds use sound for that. Other birds use visual displays, aerobatics, sheer viciousness, or other physical traits. Some use combinations of the above. Like everything else, what works will survive to be used by the next generation.
Not all birds sing well.
I love this answer. Beauty is in the
eyeear of the beholder.
This is the most “I like all music except rap and country” post I’ve ever seen.
If all humans speak English, why do the Chinese speak Mandarin, the French speak French, and Norwegians talk like cavemen?
That’s essentially what you just asked and have single handedly destroyed the theory that this community represents.
Because songbirds evolved to attract mates with their songs, and the fowl and the like didn’t so much.
