{"id":5488,"date":"2011-01-31T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2022-02-07T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:09:59","slug":"how-hungry-is-my-baby-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/this-just-in\/how-hungry-is-my-baby-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hungry is my Baby Bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?s=birds\">birds<\/a> can be demanding, constantly asking their parents for food. With all this calling for some grub things can get pretty noisy, luckily parents can tell the difference between the calls of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=2305\">chicks<\/a> so that they know they are feeding their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3581\">babies<\/a>. New research by German and Swiss ornithologists (people that study birds)\u00a0 have now shown that it\u2019s not just about knowing who your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3401\">kids<\/a> are, it\u2019s also about hearing how hungry they are.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11236\" title=\"hungry baby birds\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/baby_birds_in_nest_hungry.jpg\" alt=\"hungry baby birds\" width=\"578\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/baby_birds_in_nest_hungry.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/baby_birds_in_nest_hungry-696x467.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/baby_birds_in_nest_hungry-626x420.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/baby_birds_in_nest_hungry-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By studying golden-backed weaver birds in Kenya researchers have discovered that the chicks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3268\">change their calls<\/a> the hungrier they get. As the chick\u2019s stomach rumbles they change their tune, with each baby bird calling out their own unique &#8216;feed me&#8217; song. It&#8217;s up to the parents to learn these different calls as their babies bust out the music notes to tell mom and dad just how hungry they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=94229&amp;CultureCode=en\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=94229&amp;CultureCode=en<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies are always hungry, but birds can tell the difference between when their babies are hungry and when it is time to eat based on their babies&#8217; cry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,402,1353,931],"tags":[151,62,247,414,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-5488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allbirds","8":"category-this-just-in","9":"category-to-edit","10":"category-all","11":"tag-baby","12":"tag-birds","13":"tag-calls","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-food"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}