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>On your Audubon article. I assume you linked the three syllable
>chickadee song ("hey sweetie", or in my terms, "cheese berger") with
>the two syllable version as the same but just less articulate. Is
>that right?
>
>Rich
Yes, Rich, that's right. I personally like fee-bee-ee (= cheese berger),
but to write about all of the song variants on Martha's Vineyard, I decided
that hey-sweetie would work better, because on the Vineyard there are three
song variants: sweetie-hey (two main whistles, both on same pitch, with a
slight break in the "sweetie"), sweetie-sweetie (two main whistles, both
on same pitch, with a slight break in each "sweetie"), and
sosweetie-sweetie (two main whistles, both on same pitch, with two slight
breaks in the "sosweetie" and one slight break in the "sweetie"). (Yes, I
dared to publish that.) Couldn't figure how to write mnemonics any way
other than using "hey-sweetie" instead of "cheese berger" or "fee-bee-ee."
Besides, when a male is unpaired, he does sing "hey-sweetie" all day long.
Best regards . . . Don
Don Kroodsma
36 Kettle Pond Rd
Amherst MA 01002
phone: 413-253-5519
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