[obol] "interchangeabgle" songs, Macs & Yellowthroats

[Larry Mcqueen]

Fascinating.  I presume we're all thinking the birds singing the wrong songs
are not imitators, but maybe hybrids?  

 

Larry

 

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From: obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu
[mailto:obol-bounces at lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Jay Withgott
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:39 PM
To: OBOL
Subject: [obol] "interchangeabgle" songs, Macs & Yellowthroats

 

 

In response to Larry McQueen's 10 May posting:  "...I have heard some
yellowthroats with songs

confusingly like McGillivray's, but never the reverse," and other postings
re: song mimicry and/or similar songs....

 

.. Same here.  Until ....  On 11 May while scouting for our Columbia County
big day, I heard a typical "chu-witchity-witchity-witch" song of a Common
Yellowthroat emanating from a clearcut in Washington County.  Except that
when I looked over in that direction, it turned out to be a
perfectly-plumaged male MacGillivray's Warbler, singing its little heart
out, perched in full sun on a telephone wire.  Had I not seen it, I wouldn't
have believed it wasn't a yellowthroat.

 

Jay W

 

 

 

 

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