** Reply to message from "Wile, Mike" <mike.wile at attws.com> on Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:00:34 -0500


> Hi-
>
> I heard a ton of alders in BC last spring and summer. The mnemonic that
> came to mind for me was 'ree-BEER-a' or 'free-BEER-a'. I guess different
> people translate bird songs into English-like sounds differently.

If I had a decent recorder, I could send the list a .wav file of the local Alders here. I hear all of them with the third dropping syllable closeup, but this gets harder to hear with distance. The call note is the clincher for all of them.

Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca