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Article: Name that tune.(identifying bird songs)
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- Hopscotch
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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In a forest of pines, a high-pitched whistle shrills, "Drink your tea-e-e-e-e!" From a thicket of wild blackberries another whistle chants, "Old Sam PEAbody, PEAbody, PEAbody." And yet another happy whistle celebrates with, What cheer, what cheer, what cheer!" These are the voices of birds.
These bird songs have been translated into English phrases to make them easy to remember. A bird watcher can hear these songs and identify the birds that sing them as a towhee, a white-throated sparrow, and a cardinal. Listening to birds, songs is just one of the many. ways that bird watchers identify birds.
Bird watching is an easy sport that requires little or ...