My best guesses

Bird 1= White-crowned Sparrow

Bird 2 = Bewick's Wren

Bird 3 = Song Sparrow

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>Bird 1: near meany hall
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>kerrrr chee chip chip chip chip (usually four chips, sometimes 2 or 3)
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>Bird 2: Greenwood residential area
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>******
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> ^^^^^ On roughly a falling major triad.
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>Chee ker chip chip chip chip chip chip (usually 6 chups, fast and well
>articulated, sometimes fewer)
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>Initial chee about 1 second, the whistle about 1/2 that, the chups about 6
>per second.
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>Bird 3: Ballard, near where 24th Ave NW hits the canal
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> , ,
> ** ^ ^
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>Kerr chee deedle deedle a slight pause between deedles
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>kerr to chee is about a third, but I can't remember whether it was closer
>to major or minor, maybe minor...
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>And why do so many birds seem to use close-to western diatonic scale
>intervals anyway, at least in the simpler songs?
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>Many thanks for any and all help.
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>Allyn Weaks
>allyn at cornetto.chem.washington.edu aka allyn at u.washington.edu
>Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening:
> http://chemwww.chem.washington.edu/natives/
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