Re: Mimics and mistakes

["Todd Olson" <>]

Greetings all:

This discussion reminded me of a piece on National Public Radio which
happened to highlight a bird I'd observed personally.

The NBR piece describes an individual white-throated sparrow in New
York City's central park that produced a good mimicry of
black-throated
green warbler.  This bird overwintered in the park for several years.
Iwas lucky enough to work nearby and got to hear it reliably from the
same location over the course of a several seasons.

It was always electrifying to hear a 'black-throated green warbler'
in
late winter. Stranger still to witness the song coming from a white-
throated sparrow

NPR link:

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/apr/010409.birds.html





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