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Re: cd guide to squirrels?

Subject: Re: cd guide to squirrels?
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Thu Aug 6, 2009 9:10 am ((PDT))
Doug Von Gausig, you wrote,

> This sounds like a good project, Dan. Maybe Nature Recordists could  
> all
> contribute to a small mammal (or even all mammal!) CD - I'm sure we  
> all
> have catalogued our local squirrel, chipmunk, antelope squirrel,  
> prairie
> dog, Marmot, Pika, etc., sounds. This would be a really valuable  
> reference
> work that hasn't been done. Just the other day I learned that some
> chipmunks make a sound that is uncannily similar to a Pygmy Owl's  
> call.
> Also I have recorded trills from central California that I always  
> thought
> were an unidentified bird, but which now I suspect of being one of the
> Antelope Squirrels.
>
> Anyone interested? I'll compile, if I can get a few others to help  
> out!

Thanks Doug! I have a bunch to contribute. Can't ID them, though!  
Sometimes I can't tell bird from squirrel, either.

-Dan Dugan






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