Hi Tweets,

Bob Mauritsen writes:

>...The songs I hear
>from Bewick's wrens right now are not to be heard on the Petersen
>CD-ROM,

Not surprising; there are very few species of songbird with more individual
variation of song than this species. Two wrens across the street from each
other often will not sound like each other, let alone a 'typical' Bewick's
Wren Thryomanes bewickii, whose 'pick-up-teeeee' sounds to this expat
Easterner's ear much more like an Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus's
'drink-your-teee' than Spotted Towhee P. maculatus's dry, ear-drilling
trills mentioned by Bob, variable from that to a rather richer trilling
'tee-tee-tee' with diminuendo.

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