I have some local BCCH songs from all over Washington if you want, should I
forward them to you or do you have an e-mail address for Dave Gammon?

Regards

Martyn

Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
N47.65543 W121.98428
Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!

The Spring is cum
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

The birdies on the wing!
Nah, that's absoid
D' wing is on d' boid!
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-----Original Message-----
From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Paulson
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:52 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Black-capped Chickadee recordings

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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Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
1500 N. Warner, #1088
Tacoma, WA 98416-1088
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html