Dennis, did you mean "Vancouver, WA," by any chance? Because after learning
about the chickadee dialects in WA & OR and posting on Tweeters & OBOL
earlier this spring, I was surprised to cross the Columbia River from my
Portland home and hear Clark Co., WA, chickadees singing the typical
eastern-U.S. two-note "dee-doo" song. Very odd if this eastern song is
geographically embedded between two regions of multiple-note song!

Jay Withgott
Portland, OR
mail to:jwithgott at msn.com


On 4/20/04 1:51 PM, "Dennis Paulson" <dpaulson at ups.edu> wrote:

> 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