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Re: Mimics and mistakes

Subject: Re: Mimics and mistakes
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:39:38 -0700
Not to worry: Imagine my surprise when observing at a couple of orcas
barking like seals. Luckily, my recorder was switched into "record"
mode.

Bernie Krause

>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:
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>http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/apr/010409.birds.html
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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