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bird call question?
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: bird call question?
- From: "shannon douglas" <monkeyself@email.msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:51:52 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I feel silly not knowing this. There is a bird I have heard all of my life
(in Columbia, SC) and I've always wandered what it is and I have read bird
call descriptions and listened to bird call recordings and never found it.
I have stalked this bird whenever I hear it and never been able to actually
see it. Yet I feel it is probably a common bird that I've seen many times
not realizing it.
I have heard it year round but more often in the spring in the evenings. It
is a very plaintive sounding call. It is made up of 4 or 5 clear whistles
with a minor sound to them. Often, the pattern is one note followed by a
note about a musical interval of a 4th above it, and then the remaining
notes stay near that note but get slightly flat each time and waver
slightly. I think there are other patterns too but they always have that
clear whistled tone with a minor feel and the progressively flatter series.
I feel it is probably a small bird - a warbler or a sparrow, maybe. Does
anybody know what bird I'm hearing?
Thanks,
Shannon
columbia, SC
monkeyself@email.msn.com