[obol] Re: Western Wood-Starling
- From: "L Markoff" <canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tc@xxxxxxxxxx>, <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:52:12 -0800
This is the same question I asked each year when the Mockingbirds in my Austin,
TX, yard started doing their impressive imitation of Chuck-will’s-widow, weeks
before the Chucks arrived for nesting. And when the Chucks did arrive I had to
listen carefully to make sure it wasn’t a Mocker fooling me. Those Mockers
kept me on my toes!
Lori Markoff
Eugene
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Tom Crabtree
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 8:46 AM
To: 5hats@xxxxxxxx; obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Joel Geier'
Subject: [obol] Re: Western Wood-Starling
And a question I will add is how do they know to do Western Wood Pewee calls in
March?
Tom
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Darrel Faxon
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 6:18 AM
To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [obol] Re: Western Wood-Starling
I think they must be. I've heard them singing a "tee-ho" song of some bird I
don't recognize.
Darrel
On 2/2/2015 9:12 PM, Joel Geier wrote:
Wood-Soras are out and about too.
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.
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 us.
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?
Happy birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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