Thanks for many quick responses. All the responses I received agreed with
Nashville, and in the meantime as I've been doing more research, and I see
that the sonogram of my clip, while faint, is strikingly similar to dozens
of sonograms of Nashville Warbler across the Xeno-canto database. Thanks to
those who took the time to listen and offer a suggestion.
Stephen
On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 18:40, Stephen Chase <
schasecredo at gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi Tweeters,
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I am unable to identify a warbler I heard and recorded this past Sunday
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morning. I posted online on the Facebook group "What's This Bird?" but no
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one responded, which I'm finding typical for audio ID requests. On
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xeno-canto.org's forum someone suggested Audobon's Yellow-rumped Warbler
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or perhaps Nashville Warbler. I also asked on a local e-mail listserv.
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Nashville and Yellow-rumped again were the most common responses. Someone
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suggested the sonogram looked consistent for Nashville. Personally, I don't
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hear Yellow-rumped, but I realize there is some variation. I suppose it
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sounds somewhat good for Nashville, I have not found a clip of Nashville on
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xeno-canto or in the Macaulay Library that matches the song all too well. The
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clip is here <https://www.xeno-canto.org/470856> on xeno-canto. There are
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some background songs but overall I think the clip is clear enough to hear
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well, so I'd love to pin it down to something concrete. The clearest
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example - and best sonogram - of the song is in the 0:02-0:04 second mark,
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but you can hear it again from 0:09-0:11 and 0:16-0:19. The bird was not
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seen, but the sound was coming from the upper canopy of mixed deciduous
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trees at the edge of dense lowland forest in rural Whatcom County around 80
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minutes after sunrise.
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Thanks for listening and for any suggestions,
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Stephen Chase, in Everson.
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