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Re: Western and Eastern Meadowlark

Subject: Re: Western and Eastern Meadowlark
From: Barb Beck <>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:20:18 -0700
On these eastern birds that are singing like westerners is the call note
still distinctive - in other words do they give an eastern or western
call note.

Barb Beck
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Meena Haribal wrote:

>If you don't trust people with binoculars  and visit  excellent web page o=
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>Kevin MacGowan he tells you how to do it!
>May be you can trust people with binoculars and a digital camera and  even=

>a deaf can see it. You don't need to hear it:-)
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>http://birds.cornell.edu/crows/wmeadowlrk.htm
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>>   Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:14:17 -0000
>>   From: "Rich Peet" <>
>>Subject: Re: always another mystery
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>>This is news to me Jim.
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>>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.
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>>I hope our birds in the US midwest continue to have distinctive songs.
>> I believe that is still the case here.
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>>Rich
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>Meena Haribal
>Cornell Lab Of Ornithology
>Phone: 607-254-2148, 607-254-4958
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>http://birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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