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[camwyn]

The Boston Globe has a lovely article in it as of the 14th by Ty Burr, their film critic, on the world of perception and recognition that opens up when you learn to identify and pay attention to bird song. He's been learning to ID birds from sound for a while now and he's very happy with the way it makes it possible to understand the incredible diversity all around him.


I'm glad for Mr. Burr, I really am. I'm just mildly amused that he hasn't realized yet that about 75%-90% of that beautiful, glorious, wide-ranging array of sound is basically Bird for "DO ME! HEY, BABY, DO MEEEEEEEEE!", and most of the rest is "you talkin' to me? Huh? HUH?? YOU TALKIN' TO ME?"

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[eor]

We have a fair number of phoebes here, a species which we called the "haw-haw" bird because they do sound like Nelson Muntz on the Simpsons saying, "Haw-haw." I was sitting in the lovely sunshine this weekend enjoying the sound of our birds and I realized Phee-bee could also be replace by "do me." Fits perfectly.