Perhaps they're hybrids? It does say Winter x Games Owls on the screen <rimshot>.

Barred Owls don't just do "who cooks for you". I've heard some that get quite raucous. They really could have used a raucous set of hoots and a "scream" on the soundtrack to work against the laid back "cool dude" punchline. Clearly they need better owl vocalization consultants.

They do get the mule deer right in this one, I think. So clearly they're either hunters or mammalologists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xEI3GACPNE&NR=1

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

The RTs vocalization also appears in UK docs and sometimes in Asia too. Even the BBC is not immune to this :-)

> And most TV viewers probably don't have a clue.

It does annoy my wife though. Though she's mostly annoyed at me saying "That's not a Red-tail ..." again or doing other bird ID from the soundtrack ("Chiff-chaffs don't sing in autumn ...").

My favorite UK anachronism (coming to gardens near you) is the Eurasian Collared Dove ("U-niii-ted" song/call) in UK period shows before 1955. They hadn't arrived then but they're the sound of suburban gardens today.

On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Barbara Deihl wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrAPYi8vbag

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