You might try http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/icterids.html which will give you the Eastern US song of the red-winged blackbird. (Out here they sound different.) I couldn't find any links for just plain blackbirds, and my copy of the White Album vanished in the flood. Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html