This is news to me Jim.
If we can not id Western from Eastern by song then we can no longer id
Meadowlarks without banding. At least I don't trust the people who do
it with binocs.
I hope our birds in the US midwest continue to have distinctive songs.
I believe that is still the case here.
Rich
--- In "Jim Morgan" <>
wrote:
> John, I would say that's defiantly a Western Meadowlark song, which,
> according to Paul Ehrlich et al in "The Birders Handbook" can be
given by
> both species of Meadowlark. Near my home in Prescott we have a group
of the
> Lilian's Eastern Meadowlark, which some ornithologists are considering
> splitting from the "Typical" Eastern as Sibley calls them. And I
also have
> some recordings of Meadowlarks made in Texas that sound like a
combination
> of western and eastern. But again yours, in my opinion, is a definite
> western song. However the bird may not be.
>
> Jim
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