For 4 years I've had a starling across the street imitating a Western Meadowlark, and so well done that when a meadowlark did show up this Fall, I very nearly passed on even looking - glad I did, though, because it was perched directly across from me on the fence. I always did wonder, however, where the starling picked up the song.

May all your birds be identified,
Denis DeSilvis
avnacrs4birds at outlook.com

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From: Jim Danzenbaker<mailto:jdanzenbaker at gmail.com>
Sent: ?1/?5/?2016 16:23
To: Kevin Lucas<mailto:vikingcove at gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Clark<mailto:cjbirdmanclark at gmail.com>; tweeters<mailto:Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] RE: Starling mimicry

They do a great Brown Creeper song too!

Jim Danzenbaker
Battle Ground, WA

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> On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:26 PM, Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The other day in our back yard I heard a starling doing a good imitation of a Varied Thrush. It seemed to get better with each try. I looked with my binoculars and saw the real thing -- a Varied Thrush amid the starlings. A couple of years ago as I walked at Snow Mountain Ranch, one time after another, probably dozens of times, I'd look high in cottonwoods to find various birdsongs each time being starlings. I kept looking, and laughing at myself for getting tricked. Then one song came from its original composer -- a trio of Pine Grosbeaks. I like how starlings can test us. They keep me looking.
> Kevin Lucas
> Selah, WA
>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Roger Moyer <rogermoyer1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was out walking day and heard a Greater Yellowlegs calling as it flew by. I started looking and it turned out to be a starling. It was doing a perfect mimic.
>>
>> Roger Moyer
>> Charlotte, NC
>>
>>
>> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu <tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Christopher Clark <cjbirdmanclark at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 8:24 AM
>> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Starling mimicry
>>
>> Those starlings often get me. I regularly hear them mimic Killdeer, and I occasionally hear them mimic Western Wood-pewees. So, anything is possible with those copycats.
>>
>> Christopher Clark
>> Sumner, WA
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