While continuing to research Western Meadowlark vocalizations I *New World
Blackbirds* (Jaramillo and Burke) and noticed something that I had missed
before in the section on 'Song':  "Occasionally performs a 'whisper song.'"
Nothing else is said about it.  Could this be the unusual vocalization I
videotaped?

And I have found a recording of a similar unusual vocalization like the one
I videotaped Friday in Pueblo County.  It was song #2 in the Bird Friends of
San Diego County
website<http://www.bird-friends.com/BirdPage.php?name=Western%20Meadowlark>

I rechecked *Birds of North America *online but didn't find anything about a
'whisper song' or unusual vocalizations except by juveniles and the bird I
videotaped is an adult.

I would still like to know if others have heard this type of unusual
vocalization in Western Meadowlarks in Colorado and if this is the 'whisper
song."

SeEtta Moss
Canon City
http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com

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