Hi, all. Here's some bird audio I've gotten in the past couple weeks: 1. This *spotted towhee* at the Medano-Zapata Ranch, Alamosa County, Mar. 20, sang a song that wouldn't sound out-of-the-ordinary for an eastern towhee in Kentucky or Ohio. Then it switched over to a perfectly typical spotted towhee. If it's not obvious, the moral of this story is: Don't trust towhees.
Eastern-like song: http://www.xeno-canto.org/307976 Spotted-like song (same bird): http://www.xeno-canto.org/307981 2. Starlings sputter, stutter, squeal, and grunt. They also produce an astonishing array of complex vocalizations, many of them quite beautiful; and they are brilliant mimics. Check out the endlessly varied song of this *European starling* at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, Mar. 12: http://www.xeno-canto.org/306784 3. I can't control myself. If I hear an *African collared-dove,* I will record it. Here is one near Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, Mar. 25: http://www.xeno-canto.org/309312 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/60603e95-b363-450e-8321-48f26c002ce8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
