On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:13 PM Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This song was heard in a nearby yard here at Commonland, near the > woods of the Six-Mile Creek natural area. Can you identify the singer? > > https://www.facebook.com/suan.yong/videos/10226149699586952
Answer: Dark-Eyed Junco. Not a "song" I remember having heard before. Sibley's says they "sing quiet, varied warbling phrases in early spring." There is also a question of whether to call this a "song", as that word is typically used to refer to a species' territorial song (which for the junco is the familiar trill), and it's unclear (to me) what role this catbird-like rambling plays. Thanks for playing. A good number of people got it right, and roughly the same number of guessers didn't. Suan -- 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/ --