Science | sparrow City Sparrows Sing Louder to Trump Cars Pitches are higher today than decades ago: Study By John Johnson Posted Apr 10, 2012 2:38 PM CDT Copied Sparrows have raised their pitch, apparently to be heard above the sounds of traffic. (Flickr) Sparrows who live in the big city have learned to speak up in order to be heard: Researchers examined the songs of those that live around the Golden Gate Bridge and found that the calls are in a higher pitch now than they were in 1965, according to an Animal Behavior study noted by Scientific American. Researchers suspect the sparrows have adapted in order to be heard above all that traffic. Read These Next He survived 43 days in a 'most dangerous' Australian desert. It's the most modern of insults: Clanker. An NFL kicker just raised the bar for his fellow kickers. How a Florida university's millions went to a cam girl. Report an error