Re: Back Home (Danger, Contains Trivia.. prepare delete button.)

[James Davis <>]

Scott and Houlem:  Both the White-throated Sparrow and Swainson's Thrush
have beautiful songs, but the Common Loon is by far <grin> emits the most
haunting call - althought it isn't a song bird, the loon's call functions
in a similar fashion.  If am limited to passerines I would choose the Wood
Thrush' multi-harmonic song...
Cheers, Jim

Dr. Wm. James Davis
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, M. Scott O'Keeffe wrote:

> Houlem wrote:
> > 
> > Hi AusBirders:
> > 
> > I was greeted home from Australia by an immature Bald Eagle catching a large
> > fish in Richmond Bay, our back yard in La Crosse Wisconsin USA. On the other
> > end of the scale were the Song Sparrow and the White Throated Sparrow, the
> > bird with the most haunting song of the wild. 
> 
> Sorry, Mike.   Most haunting bird song of the wild from that part of the
> world (NA) has got to be Swainson's Thrush or Varied Thrush!
> -- 
> "Beware of Half-truths... you may have the wrong half"
> 
> M. Scott O'Keeffe
> Centre for Conservation Biology
> University of Queensland
> 
>