Re: [cobirds] Son of Song Quiz: We have a winner! (Nick Moore)

There was a chat working the streambed above Chautauqua giving that same call two days ago.  Along with an array of other calls as if he was trying to present the entire panoply of birds singing along the stream.  He even dueted with a MacGillivray's Warbler for a few minutes.

Charlie Chase 

Denver

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:52 AM Ted Floyd <tedfloyd73@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, all.

Nick Moore got it. Yellow-breasted chat. The bird that can sing or say anything--anywhere, anytime. It was, as far as I could ascertain, a typical adult of the species. Nick also said: "Usually they start their more normal song but Ted may well be keeping the full recording from us." It is true that the bird eventually started to give a normal ("normal" being relative with the the crackup, clownish chat) song, but only after a long while of this consistent, stereotyped, down-slurred, wavering whistle.

Long ago, before the era of smartphones and small pocket recorders, I heard a chat in Gregory Canyon, Boulder County, giving only a slowly uttered, quite-low, monotone whistle. Was nearly certain I had a northern pygmy-owl. But no.

About a decade later, THIS chat was at Rabbit Mountain, Boulder County:

https://www.xeno-canto.org/184929

I think you'll see (and hear) why I thought I had a rare curve-billed thrasher. I wasn't the only one who thought that. :-)

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

--
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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1fa2f505-be17-40b0-8760-9b2d9b162169o%40googlegroups.com.

--
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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CA%2BBAsduFfBmGLWLKL9%3Dn_txKToKrVMEOjuSGXqC_dFjSgAzhBQ%40mail.gmail.com.