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Re: Bewick's Wren vs E Towhee

Subject: Re: Bewick's Wren vs E Towhee
From: Doug Von Gausig <>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:38:27 -0700
At 12:34 PM 3/21/2004, Jim Morgan wrote:

>
>The spectra are of a Bewick's Wren, shown on the left and that of an
>Eastern Towhee on the right. I recorded the wren in Arizona and the towhee=

>in North Carolina.

Nice illustration of those two - it demonstrates how important context is
to ID. If I'd heard only the towhee and been told it was recorded in AZ,
I'd certainly ID it as a Bewick's Wren.

Doug
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