[texbirds] Re: Mockingbirds making out-of-area sounds (Was: Government Canyon...)
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Stevan Hawkins <shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:58:41 -0500
Years ago when I worked at IBM in Austin, I had a Crepe Myrtle Mocker in
the parking lot that would do Black Rail, Kiskadee and Brown-crested
Flycatcher along with the more typical expected species for the location.
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Stevan Hawkins <shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Chuck:
>
> Even though your "Friends of Balcones" article shot my hypothesis down, it
> was very useful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
>
> Stevan Hawkins
> San Antonio TX
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Sexton [mailto:gcwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:49 AM
> To: TexBirds TexBirds Posting
> Subject: Re: Mockingbirds making out-of-area sounds (Was: Government
> Canyon...)
>
> Steve and TexBirders,
>
> While it may very well be that the Gov't Canyon Mocker is immitating a
> local
> sound, I'm sure you're aware that Mockers also move around and disperse,
> often bringing their natal "dialect" and sounds with them. I wrote about a
> particularly vivid example of this that occurred on Balcones Canyonlands
> NWR
> in May 2010:
>
> http://www.friendsofbalcones.org/chucks/335519
>
> That was a bird which uttered an amazing array of deep South Texas/Northern
> Mexico bird sounds which it could not have learned any closer than 250
> miles
> from that Refuge.
>
> Chuck Sexton
> Austin=
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