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Pima Co., Arizona
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Badlands, South Dakota
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There are three different songs here sung by a Western Meadowlark. The first repeats three times, the second song repeats 4 times, and the third song is repeated three times. This was recorded on Marble Hot Springs Road at the 2nd 90 degree turn as the Meadowlark sang from the telephone wire above. In the background you will hear cows moo and a few other birds call as well, but the Western Meadowlark is clearly the focal subject of the recording. This was recorded with a Fostex FR-2 and Sennheiser shotgun microphone, ME66.
The photo attached is a spectrogram of Western Meadowlark made in Raven Pro.
(taxonomy:binomial="Sturnella neglecta")
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Eastern Meadowlarks (Sturnella magna) live in the prairies around central Arizona. Their song here, which is at the Western limit of their range, is a bit different than their more typical Eastern relatives.
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Burnidge Forest Preserve
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Badlands, South Dakota
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An Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) sings in a hilly field about 10 miles outside Monteverde on the road to Arenal (Costa Rica), Mid-afternoon 6/15/99.
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Nelson Lake Forest Preserve
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A Red-breasted Blackbird (Sturnella militaris) sits on a fencepost and calls near Grano de Oro (Costa Rica), 6/24/99. The locals call him "Veranero" or a "Cacique veranero". This has been a South Pacific lowland bird, but reports of it moving north throughout the country are increasing. In this case, the bird is in the eastern Talamancas, far from the southeast lowlands!
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Heron's Head Park
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Western Meadlowlarks spend the Winter around here, as do Eastern Meadowlarks. The only reliable way to tell them apart is by their song. In fact, it was because their songs are so different that they were considered a different species! The Eastern Meadlowlark's song is composed of high pitched whistles, and sounds nothing like this gurgly guy, who was recorded in May 1999 near the Salinas River of Central California.
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Palo Alto Baylands
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Central Arizona, 50 miles from other central Arizona sample.
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A bird mutters to himself in a "whisper song" that bears little relation to the other sounds this species makes - sung from atop a power pole near Cornville, Arizona, 5/99.
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2002 California Academy of Sciences
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2002 California Academy of Sciences
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Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Western meadowlark in the grassOriginal date: 20040100Locality: Latitude: 3.497270000000000e+001; Longitude: -1.050320000000000e+002
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2015 California Academy of Sciences
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2002 California Academy of Sciences
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Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Western meadowlark in the grassOriginal date: 20040100Locality: Latitude: 3.497270000000000e+001; Longitude: -1.050320000000000e+002
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2009 California Academy of Sciences
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