Hi,

Timberline sparrows again: I have always been in awe of the profuse
variability of a Brewer's Sparrow's song, all those notes tumbling from
such a modest dickey bird. What an "odd" Brewer's song is may be
difficult to characterize unambiguously. We will need sonograms, and a
goodly sample of them...

Gene Hunn. hunn at u.washington.edu

On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Mike Patterson wrote:

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> Alan Contreras and I were doing some bird banding in the Mt. Jefferson
> Wilderness in 1992. We captured at least 5 Brewer's type sparrows in
> a dwarf hemlock stand at about 5000 ft. We were struck by the odd
> quality of the song. It had some wierd extra bits to it. At the time
> we eliminated the possibility of Timberline Sparrow based mostly on our
> understanding of the range (northern Rockies).
> I still have a corpse in the freezer. If anyone has measurements beyond
> "slighlty bigger" or a tape recording of the song, I would appreciate
> the information.
>
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