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Re: Mystery Birds from Central Illinois

Subject: Re: Mystery Birds from Central Illinois
From: "M, J, & V Phinney"
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 0:06am(PDT)
I stand corrected on bird #12! Robin's w-e vireo example sure sounds like
the bird in question. I was fooled by the introductory 'mew' note in Stan's
recording - and certainly hadn't heard that long, rambling peculiar song
before. Mystery solved and 'mysery' ended.

Mark Phinney


on 5/20/06 9:29 AM, Robin Carter at  wrote:

> Stan,
>
> Mystery Bird 12 is a White-eyed Vireo. I don't think it is a Blue-gray
> Gnatcatcher, and it certainly is not a Yellow-breasted Chat.
>
> Here is an example of a White-eyed Vireo song, recorded in Manchester Sta=
te
> Forest, Sumter County, South Carolina in March, 2002:
>
> http://home.sc.rr.com/graykingbird/
>
> I think you will find a lot of similarities to your Mysery Bird 12.
>
> Robin Carter
> Columbia, SC USA
> 
>




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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg

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