Subject: [Tweeters] TV advertisers really need a copy of a bird ID book
Date: Jan 23 21:01:12 2011
From: Michael Brown - borealis at seanet.com


TV and movies consistently have Bald Eagles that sound a great deal like
Red-tailed Hawks.

Ted Ryan wrote:
> We were watching TV as a family and saw that too, two of my kids
> yelled out "that isn't a Snowy Owl!". I had to also point out that the
> hoot wasn't right either.
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> Ted Ryan
> Fredrickson, WA
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> On Jan 23, 2011, at 10:45 AM, iwhonever at comcast.net
> <mailto:iwhonever at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Just saw a TV commercial with two Barn Owls "hooting" like Great
>> Horns to represent the dialog captioned below them. Then at the end,
>> the commercial ID them as "Snow Owls" talking....
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>> Talk about a hybrid bird The "Great Horned Snowy Barn Owl"
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>> I think they do this just to drive bird watcher crazy :-)
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>> iwhonever at comcast.net <mailto:iwhonever at comcast.net>
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>> Kate Hammill
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>> Edmonds/Seattle 98020/98103
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