[cobirds] Re: id help please...bird song from Sierra Nevada

Thanks to those who responded!

The verdict is a Hermit Thrush! 

Beautiful song!

I think I had not considered it before because I observed it singing from tall tree tops. Also I had not realized how much smaller and more slender than other thrushes.

Ron Bolton

Berthoud

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:38:29 PM UTC-6, ronbco wrote:

sorry to clutter cobirds with an id request of a CA siting...but I am stuck...and I've tried whatbird and xeno-canto.

See the name of one of our local experts with postings of audio recordings (you know who you are Ted...) I am going to reach out to this group.

place: sierra nevada mtns

location heard: 9k-11k ft...heard it many times on a 40 mile backpack trip

habitat: trees, perched on top of tall evergreens to sing

visual description: fairly non-descript brown/grey/white, warbler/townsends solitaire size, seemed a close match to warbling vireo in coloring, the tail seemed fairly short

general description of song: melodic, one song was 8 notes in about 4s (fairly slow), then repeated with a slight modulation, the ending notes of the song sounded like woodwind or chimes (very pleasing), the last 6 notes (faster than the firstt 2) were in a sequence of 2 notes close in pitch

so in short, one of the most pleasant songs, from an obviously common, average-sized, perching bird in the Sierra Mtns

tx

Ron Bolton

Berthoud

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/d424de2a-525e-40cb-b631-2f7c11c0ee5c%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.