Try yellow-headed blackbirds.
Pete Scholtens
Hamilton, ON
Canada
PS I'm brand new on the list. I have no experience with nature recording,
but I'm interested in learning.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Dan Dugan <> wrote:
> Doug Von Gausig, you wrote:
>
> > Song sparrows have a particular "style" that they all use. It's a
> > combination of the high, clear piping notes and "burry", or "slurred"
> > notes, and usually a rapid trill. Not only do the birds in different
> > areas
> > sing different songs, but a single individual may go through 20 or so
> > variations in one performance. They usually sing the same song
> > through 5-10
> > iterations, then switch to another, then another, etc. But in any
> > case, the
> > song is a combination of piping, burry notes and trill that taken
> > together
> > are diagnostic of the species. Also the habitat is a strong indicator,
> > since Song Sparrows inhabit marshy areas, and most birds that can be
> > mistaken for them (Bewick's Wren, for instance) do not. The Song
> > Sparrow's
> > call (that slurred, nasal single tone) is diagnostic of the species.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> > By the way, the Red-wings sound a little odd, are you sure they
> > weren't
> > Tri-colored Blackbirds? Do the birds on your recording sound typical
> > for
> > Red-winged in that area?
>
> I didn't get a visual, so your guess may be better than mine.
>
> I listened to tricolors on Peterson's, Keller's, and Stokes' CDs,
> though, and didn't hear a match. In other parts of my recording there
> were lots of clear descending notes that most of the red-wing examples
> include. Do tricoloreds make that note?
>
> Do the species mix? This was dawn, March 3, near a farm pond at about
> 1500 ft.
>
> -Dan Dugan
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