Crucial songbird intelligence for Franco’s report
Luscinia megarhynchos/Common nightingale
Nightingales are best known for their beautiful vocal abilities. Male birds, especially, sing for hours on end each night during the breeding season.
The females select mates based on the quality of this musical performance.
Older males have improved mating success due to their larger song repertoire, which can consist of an astonishing 260 variations.
Male nightingales lose weight each night they sing.
(Thank you, Tim.)
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Now Franco sings all night long in 260 variations plus one, but I don’t see females lining up to select him. Perhaps they’re at the wrong door? He still lives in Hal Ghaxaq with his mother, girls. The Marsascala (or is it Marsaxlokk?) house is just for show.
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It’s Marsaxlokk. He needs it to feed the passion for angling and fishing that he boasts about.
And it’s a villa.
And he’s not losing any weight.
Is there a date for the wedding?
He’s been serenading nightingales for years and still no mating has taken place, Maybe his only aim is to maintain his figure.
My pleasure, mockingbird.
“…Male birds, especially, sing for hours on end each night during the breeding season.
The females select mates based on the quality of this musical performance.
Older males have improved mating success due to their larger song repertoire, which can consist of an astonishing 260 variations.
Male nightingales lose weight each night they sing. ”
Hiiiii, imsieken, dawn il-mejl najtin-gejjj-ls, kemm ibaaatu.
Of course the female nightingales are not impressed. Franco, iktar ‘hanqa ta’ hmar’ ghandu milli ghanja ta rozinjol.
Issa daqt jghid li Twitter ivintaha hu.
Mhux ezatt. Imma certament ispira lill-inventur, li kien qed jahseb x’nistghu insejhu lil xi hadd li huwa aghar minn twit.
More of a twit than a twitter.