Is This True

[Kymba]

Just Read this.In the Times Online.
Is it true.. If it is I have just learnt something new


It is worth listening to the songs of the blackbirds in the last week of June, for once we are into July most of them will fall silent, and they will not be heard singing again till the end of next January.
Chaffinches will also stop singing soon, their nesting season over. They will be heard again next year at the same time as the blackbirds resume their song.
Robins are moulting now, and have already stopped singing. The young robins are coming out of their spotty plumage, and red feathers are beginning to appear on their breast. The robins will start singing again earlier than most birds, since in August and September the adult males and females and the newly mature young birds will all be competing to establish winter territories, and their songs will ring out as musical challenges to each other; rivals for a piece of land.

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Kymba

Just Read this.In the Times Online.
Is it true.. If it is I have just learnt something new

It is apparently true because there is no need to defend their territory after the last brood. Having said that, I've never actually noticed a sudden silence. The RSPB website says only the male blackbird stops singing.

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by Kymba

Just Read this.In the Times Online.
Is it true.. If it is I have just learnt something new

Yes it's true, I can vouch for it personally. July is always very quiet; most of the warblers will still be singing, and the sedge warblers will keep going until September, but everything else is busy feeding youngsters - no time, energy or need for singing.
T2