Subject: yet another flycatcher question!
Date: Jun 30 14:43:01 1999
From: S. Downes - sdownes at u.washington.edu


This is proibably not it, but to some people the pewee call has been
described as an olive-sided without the opening quick note. I guess
three-beers, pee-wee could sound similar. So I would vote for a
Olive-sided doing a partial call or a W.W pewee.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA

"Birds don't read bird books. (That's why they are seen doing things they
are not supposed to do)." -Mary Wood


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Lauralee Smith wrote:

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> I wish I hadn't accidentally deleted that wonderfully detailed
> posting by, I believe, Wayne Weber a few days ago -- the answer
> to this question could have been in it! I'm wondering if there is
> perhaps a different sort of flycatcher, whose call is
> identical to the infamous "quick three beers" of the olive-sided
> flycatcher, but without the "quick" -- in other words, just the
> two notes? Otherwise, the inflection and delivery were identical.
>
> Lauralee Smith
> North Seattle
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