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["IE Ries" <featherchaser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Carolina Wren says "seed-eater! seed-eater! seed-eater!" to me, American 
Goldfinch males say "potato-chip, potato chip-ip!" and Cuckoos don't 
actually say "cuckoo" in on this continent like their European cousins do; 
to me their voice is more etheral, almost like a electronic instrument when 
they make their "tzeeeeer, tzeeeeer, tzooooo tzooooo tzooooo" call.

  Irene



  >>>>I do like the name ka-hawk. That is what the creature says. We have 
some
  birds named like that, such as chickadee [-deedee], cuckoo, and
  whip-poor-will. If we named other birds like that, we would have
  tatweetya for a Carolina wren, bert (with the r trilled) for a
  red-bellied woodpecker, twitatwita for a cardinal, and oowicucucu for a
  mourning dove.






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