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Re: mystery bird

Subject: Re: mystery bird
From: Doug Von Gausig <>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:26:49 -0700
At 08:58 PM 8/20/2005, you wrote:
>At 03:41 AM 8/21/2005 +0000, Mark Fischer wrote:
>
> >--- In  Charles Bragg
> >> I wish I could hear a bit more of the file too. This song is not the
>
>
> >Well, it just so happens:
> >
> ><http://aguasonic.com/Sounds/levee_bird3.mp3>http://aguasonic.com/Sounds=
/
> levee_bird3.mp3
>
> >If it helps- from the glimpses I've been able to catch he's a small
> >brown bird, pretty shy about being seen. Singing in Thule grass at the
> >water's edge.
>
>         OK, the recording now sounds like a Marsh Wren. It *could* be a
> Bewick's doing an imitation, but it goes on so long and consistently I
> doubt it.
>         The behavior is more like a Marsh than a Bewick's. Marshes tend
> to stay low and hidden in the rushes/cattails/tules and are *hardly ever*=

> away from water. Bewick's are more likely to perch high and in sight, and=

> are *mostly* over dry ground.
>
>         -- Chuck

Absolutely, positively NOT a Marsh Wren.

Doug

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