Subject: Thrush Question
Date: Jul 6 20:34:01 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


In a perfect world, every possible form of bird would fit into
a pocket sized field guide.

Pacific Coast Swainson's Thrushes remarkably (frustratingly)
Veery-like. If you're using the "old" NGG (1st or 2nd ed.)
you'll see two forms of Swainson's, neither of which is
typical of the Pacific Northwest. The new guide shows a
west coast SWTH.

You indicated multiple birds in your woodland. They
are probably Swainson's Thrushes.

Ileen Weber wrote:
>
> I live in south Everett by a protected wetland -- a creek, streamside
> thickets and bordering woodland.
>
> I have been trying to identify a song for weeks. It is distinctly
> thrushlike. None of my bird tapes records this particular song for any
> thrush species.
>
> It's a secretive bird, singing in the early morning, afternoon and
> evening. One bird will sing and another will echo the same song
> immediately after.
>
> Earlier in the season I thought I had identified both Swainson's Thrush and
> Veery. Today, what I finally was able to see with my binoculars appeared
> to be a Veery. It was singing from an branch about 15 feet above the
> ground. It had light spotting on it's throat and a reddish tint above,
> with no eye ring I could identify. In the NGG it looks like a
> Veery. There are at least 2 here, probably more. Sometimes it sounds like
> 3 are singing from different locations.
>
> However, according to Wahl and Paulson the Veery does not occur on the west
> side of the Cascades.
>
> What else might it be? Is it possible to have a Veery in this location?
>
> Ileen Weber
> Everett, WA
> iweber at seanet.com

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