Subject: Black-capped Chickadee recordings
Date: Apr 20 13:51:38 2004
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


Hello, tweets.

Dave Gammon, a colleague at Colorado State University, is studying
local dialects in Black-capped Chickadee whistled songs. He visited
here last weekend and got some good recordings in Tacoma. Besides the
fact that our western Washington chickadees sound different from
those anywhere else in the range of the species, there seem to be
local dialects here within short distances of one another, and he
would love to get additional recordings. The multiple-noted "Puget
Sound" song has been detected south to Portland at least, but the
Vancouver, BC, chickadees are said to sound like eastern ones
(two-noted feee-beee).

If anyone has recordings of these songs from this area, Dave would be
very interested in them.

Dennis
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