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Identifying birds by song.(Field Identification)
On that early morning in May, in the woods of Pennsylvania, we had been out for half an hour without seeing a single bird. But were we disappointed? Hardly. The birding was wonderful.
Although they were unseen, birds on all sides were filling the air with sound. From the dense undergrowth came the emphatic whistled song of a Hooded Warbler, "weetaweeTEEoh." Ovenbirds chanted their insistent crescendos. A Hairy Woodpecker rattled and drummed. From a clearing beyond the trees came the bright, quick phrases of an Indigo Bunting, and a Prairie Warbler's wiry attempt to play the scale. Near a stream, an Acadian Flycatcher snapped out a demand that seemed astonishing ...
- Name that tune.(identifying bird songs)
- Magazine article from: Hopscotch Wren, Laura Lee April 1, 1997 700+ words
...These are the voices of birds. These bird songs have been translated into English...remember. A bird watcher can hear these songs and identify the birds that sing them...a cardinal. Listening to birds, songs is just one of the many. ways that...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Guarino, Mark April 4, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Futurist Wagner, Cynthia G. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...vocalizations relatively quickly, so songs may be a good early-warning...the steppes markedly affected song-type sharing mechanisms in...hinder cultural transmission of song types over distances." [ILLUSTRATION...Culture Transmission: Patterns of Song Matching in Dupont's Lark...
- New Findings About Bird Songs And Calls.
- Magazine article from: National Wildlife April 1, 1999 700+ words
...musicians, birds must learn their songs and practice their instruments...hear a difference between the songs of female and male northern cardinals. But a study of their songs' harmonics has found that the...the source of a recorded male song, and females returned the song...
- Birdie talk.(SCIENCE)(bird songs)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin) January 9, 2009 700+ words
...the brain controls the song the birds will sing as adults. Birds use songs to draw other birds toward...the Lesson Write a bird song. Ask each student to...have each student write a song about his or her bird...share or sing!--their songs with the class. Web Resource...
- Think syrinx.(bird songs)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Odyssey Feldman, Ruth Tenzer January 1, 2007 700+ words
...screeching chainsaws from encroaching loggers. Song travels long distances and helps locate...often it is the males that sing) use song to defend territory or attract a mate...voice. The result? We hear beautiful songs and sometimes "Good bird!"
- Seeing Bird Songs
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jake Page September 13, 1987 700+ words
...it doesn't take a great deal of practice before one can begin "seeing" a bird song in this two-dimensional way. Over the years, as a student of bird song, Morton immersed himself in the sonograms of thousands of birds. Eventually he began...
- The Man With 10,000 (Bird) Songs In His Head: Bret Whitney's extraordinary ear...
- Magazine article from: Popular Science Koeppel, Dan December 1, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Dan Koeppel We emerge from a tiny boat, 12 of us, and step onto a nameless island in the heart of Brazilian Amazonia. We each carry binoculars, but our precision optics seem less than useful; the birds are invisible in the snarl of forest vegetation. No problem: We've got Bret Whitney. Two
