jodawi | Apr. 22nd, 2003

Apr. 22nd, 2003

"The Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) sings a beautiful song typical of the Catharus thrushes. Note that it rises in tone, whereas the Veery's falls. This individual was singing in the willows along Gold Creek in Gunnison County, Colorado. They are difficult to record in this habitat, as they like to be right next to a beautiful, but noisy, mountain stream."
http://www.naturesongs.com/swth1.wav
http://www.naturesongs.com/swth1.mp3

This recording doesn't really do it justice. Maybe it's not exactly the same species. Or maybe recording played on computer not match echoing Washington forest on sunny warm summer day.

map

http://www.nenature.com/SwainsonsThrush.htm
http://weaselhead.org/learn/birds_swainsons_thrush.asp
http://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/swainsons.htm

"The Swainson's Thrush performs a valuable economic service by consuming large numbers of insects pests. Their taste for berries also provides an ecologically important service as the undigested seeds of elderberries, raspberries, wild cherries, blackberries, twinberries and others that pass through the digestive tract are dispersed into new areas. Data show that populations of these thrushes are declining in many regions."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Catharus+ustulatus
http://images.google.com/images?q=Swainson%27s+Thrush

Listen to these slowed-down versions

http://www.naturesongs.com/bull1.wav

http://www.naturesongs.com/bull1.wav

Your greatest goal in life is to make the pretty music based on the slowed-down versions of these thrush songs.

Even if it isn't your greatest goal in life, it may be.

"The song of Swainson's Thrush is one of the most charming examples of a harmony in suspension which it is possible to find in all the realm of music. The bird deliberately chooses a series of even intervals and climbs up the scale with a thought entirely single to harmonious results."

Hm.. this Hermit Thrush example sounds similar to the Swainson's.
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/sounds/99sounds/hermitthrush3.au
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/sounds/99sounds/hermitthrush2.au

fat little birdies tra la la
fat little birdies ha ha ha

when i ask "what do you want?" what is the FIRST thing that comes to mind?

Spice Girls.

Would you consider marriage again?

Don't plan on it, but it might be fun to shock someones.

What makes these "Ask me a question," things so popular on livejournal? Do people ordinarily *not* ask questions unless prompted? I guess that that's two questions.

Vague hope for fun things to answer; breaking down the walls between trilobytes and their tricycles; middle aged men in black suits gone wild; arf arf arf.

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Apr. 22nd, 2003

Swainson's Thrush

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