Claire

Do Birds React To Different Types Of Music
come at all. I believe this because every bird hears things differently. It was the way that they evolve. So some birds might react to country music, and others like the quiet or a different sound.
 * My Hypothesis**: I believe that some birds will come to some music and some birds will not


 * My Materials**:
 * Bland Birdseed
 * Speaker, and a playlist


 * Variables**:
 * Controls: Birdseed, What songs get played
 * Independent Variables: How many birds came
 * Dependent Variables: Time, What kind of music was played.




 * My Procedure**: Fill up one bird feeder, then I will put a speaker in a nearby tree. Close enough so that they will hear it, but far enough away that they won't fly away because its too loud. Then I will sit and wait over the course of 2 weeks to see what birds come to what music. I will go from 6 pm to 7pm every fay and alternate the sounds.So it wont matter if at 6:15 I play rap every day and they don't really come at that time, it will be about the time not the music. Then the next day I will alternate the order in which they are played. I think this experiment will have a unique outcome.

I recently read an article that said that all birds ears are different and they all make a different sound. I think that I will play four different types of music: rap, pop, country, and classical. I will look up which sound that they make, so I can see if there sound has anything to do with the sound they come at. For example if the bird makes a pop type sound than they may respond to the pop music, not the country. Or maybe if they make a pop type sound than they may respond to a different sound like rap, more than there own like tune.
 * Background Research**:


 * Results**:

Well the first day almost no birds came because it was raining so I thought that they were all getting worms instead of coming to my feeder. But the second day I played the playlist: 15 minutes of no music, 15 minutes of pop, 15 minutes of classical, and 15 minutes country music. They seem to react the most to country and not at all to the classical. But I don't really think they react that much to anything. It doesn't really have to do with what music is being played just the time matters. For instance if I started the counting of birds at 7 rather than 5 there would be a lot less birds at the feeder. No matter what music is played or stopped, they don't notice. I think it's because birds have to block out every day noise like cars, trains, people, and other animals. There so used to blocking it out that they block out the music that is being played as well.




 * More Results**: Overall I am a little disappointed in what happened in my experiment. I thought that that birds would react differently to what music is being played but they didn't really react at all. They didn't care what music was being played they just came at certain times of day. So when I realized this I started seeing which birds would come at which time. They mostly came at 1pm and around 5:30pm. But as the weather got colder more birds came. So it had to do with how cold it was and what time of day it was. But if I looked at the music, I saw that they were all about even except for pop was a little bit ahead. So, there was nothing drastic. Maybe in the future I'd like to look at weather a little more and time. Instead of focusing on the music as much, because it doesn't really matter. I think maybe because birds have to get used to the sounds of the world that they are used to blocking out all the noise. so when they hear music, they tune it out.

In the end, the music wasn't a big factor it was mostly the time of day. I liked doing this experiment because all my ideas were wrong and I got to see what really happened. In the future I'd like to focus more on the time, and maybe a little on weather and see what time of day, and what season do they come to the feed most. We will see what will happen in the future.
 * Conclusion**:

http://www.earthlife.net/birds/hearing.html http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1098 http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/
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