[obol] Re: Western Wood-Starling
- From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Tom Crabtree <tc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:13:52 -0800
A couple of ideas:
1) They're diabolical and have nothing better to do than deceive us
birders; or
2) This is just when they start singing whatever "spring songs" they
know.
I'm leaning toward the first one.
Joel
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 08:46 -0800, Tom Crabtree wrote:
> And a question I will add is how do they know to do Western Wood Pewee
> calls in March?
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> Subject: [obol] Re: Western Wood-Starling
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> I think they must be. I've heard them singing a "tee-ho" song of some
> bird I don't recognize.
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> On 2/2/2015 9:12 PM, Joel Geier wrote:
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> Wood-Soras are out and about too.
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> Usually identifiable by their habit of giving their diagnostic
> whinny calls from high in the cottonwoods wher,e when you
> look, you'll only see Starlings. But you need to remember to
> tilt your head from side to side, or else you might get the
> idea that they're carrying on from that wetland lower down in
> front of you.
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> Another reason why I always maintain a bit of skepticism about
> heard-only reports, no matter how skilled the birder.
> Starlings are amazing and under-appreciated birds on this side
> of the pond. I wouldn't draw any boundaries on the range of
> birds that they can mimic well enough to fool even the best of
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> The big question is, how do they learn some of these obscure
> songs and phrases? Are starlings moving around the continent
> more than we realize?
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> Happy birding,
> Joel
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> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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