At 9:24 PM -0700 5/26/98, Michael Price wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>Kelly McAllister writes:
>
>>At the risk of matching the stereotype of worthless list server
>>messages, I have to say that "weezy-weezy-weezy-weet" is, for
>>me, the near-perfect mnemonic.
>
>At the risk of compounding the worthlessness, this is a perfect mnemonic for
>both Black-throated Gray Warbler Dendroica nigrescens *and* Townsend's
>Warbler D. townsendi, as TOWA sings this as only one dialect of several as
>they pass through here in Vancouver BC.
>
A further addition to Michael's comments: I've spent a good part of this
spring chasing warblers around the neighborhood, and have visually i.d.ed
b-tg warblers singing four different variations of the
"weezy-weezy-weezy-weet" song, and two of them were different enough to
sound like a different species to me. "Weezy-weezy-weezy-weet" seems to be
the "basic" song, but the repertory is certainly larger...

Rob Saecker
Olympia