Cage & Aviary Birds

Wren feat: songbirds can keep to the beat

LOOK OUT, PROFESSIONAL musicians! There’s another musical maestro whose ability to keep time matches yours. Welcome to the world stage the scaly-breasted wren (Microcerculus marginatus), sometimes aptly referred to as the southern nightingale-wren.

Recent research, conducted in the

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