Hi Tweets,

Gene Hunn writes:

>You're rendition sounds closer to the way I hear it than the master guides.
>However, I've compared the sonographs of the Hutton's I recorded at Wenas
>Creek with one I recorded in Seattle, and they are essentially identical
>except that the east side note is "upside down." In other words, each
>"tzur-rreep" is like a "V" on the graph, west side, but shaped "^" on the
>east side. I don't know what to make of that.

Well, Gene, I think you should write it up so that the AOU can see its way
to splitting it, naming those east-side birds Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni
hunni. It's a good be those east-siders are migratory, as winters are harder
than on the milder, gentler west side of Cascadia. Since the purpose of
birdsong is to proclaim territory the first things those birds would be
doing on arriving is not only to let other potentially competitive species
they've arrived back and are asserting rights to their territory, but to
make it clear that they aren't huttoni-race birds but are actually saying
with their song: "Hunni. I'm home."


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