Although Northern Cardinals are known to have lived to be 15 years old, adults have only a 60% chance of surviving from year to year. I suspect you have a new bird on the block.
Kevin From: bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Meena Madhav Haribal Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 7:26 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal Song Hi all, I have been hearing the cardinal sing, but to my ear the song seems different than the usual he used to sing in the past time this year at this time of the year. Instead of singing "kiddo kiddo" he seem to be singing a different tune. So I am wondering if this means something else. I know one female from my area presumably his mate was lost to a Cooper's Hawk as meal. So I am not sure if he is advertising for a female and territory or he is singing the usual song. I wanted to record the song but at that time my heater was blasting with full force. This year it is on most of the mornings due to really cold temperatures. May be tomorrow I will give it a try. Does anyone know of the different tunes cardinal use for different purposes? I know once some one gave a talk on cardinal songs but I believe he did not touch this subject. Also a note of interest for those music and nature song lovers about this special events https://westfield.org/conferences/environsmessiaen/schedule.html Check it out. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4299/9212 - Release Date: 03/02/15 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
