I am just writing because I have noticed something interesting about
my recognition of bird-song and I wanted to know whether other birders
have noticed this too, or whether their experience contradicts this:
I am not, in fact, very good at recognising bird-calls or bird-song.
I know the calls of the common birds around about and some distinctive
ones I hear less frequently. But mostly I have to keep on reminding
myself with the aid of tapes what the calls or songs of certain birds
are.
However, when I do recognise the call or song of an unseen bird what
happens if it's a very common bird is that I just think 'Magpie' or
whatever, however if it's a call that need a short time before I
recognise it, when I do recognise it I get a mental picture of the
bird flashing through my mind, often the image is of the bird actually
calling. I don't get the name of the bird flashing in my mind.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Cheers
John L
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John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
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