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Re: Blyths Warbler / Mockingbird

Subject: Re: Blyths Warbler / Mockingbird
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:45 pm ((PDT))
At 21:00 2007-04-12, you wrote:
>Dan Dugan wrote:
>
> >Klas Strandberg wrote about Blyths Warbler:
> > >Here is one:
> > >
> > ><http://www.telinga.com/gallery/dumetorum.htm>http://www.telinga.co
> > m/gallery/dumetorum.htm
> >
> >Yes! That is really something special. I derive similar pleasure from
> >the mockingbird common in the U.S.
>
>What a magnificent recording, Klas! It reminded me of a mockingbird as wel=
l.

Yes, especially the tempo and phrasing!


>Are any of the warbler's phrases imitations?

Yes, but I don't know which. It is said (??) that they are all
imitations, except the one that sounds like a spoon knocking at a
porcelain plate.  Some of the sounds I can (maybe) recognize from
Swedish birds.

Klas.





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

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