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Ireallyreallyreallylovethisone.
potato chip
thanks L.M., and thanks for the great audio, Alex!
but why did you call the link potato chip?
mnemonic
"Urban robins living in noisy areas sing at night because they are more likely to be heard, according to research published yesterday."
OMG that mnemonic site is beautiful. The green heron says "skelp skelp skelp." When we're lucky we get to hang out in a woods with a pewee who says "pee-a-weee" and "pee-yer" (Roger Tory Peterson spells it "pee-urr").
Very interesting article Bill. I learned from the nature channel a few years ago about issues affecting sonic terrain. Each noise-making creature in an ecosystem has its own frequency. I learned that frogs chant in synch in order to make each one less vulnerable to predators. If something, like an airplane, breaks that rythm then more little froggies get skelped up by herons.
I have noticed that our robins sit right on the peaks of the houses on the street, about 7 houses apart, and sing really loudly right after it gets dark. And they also do it right before dawn. But I haven't noticed them in the middle of the night (our neighbourhood is pretty quiet).
Another bird of London (Ont.)
urr-mow is the cat word for hello
These animations also look like ghosts.
That's interesting, L.M. I wasn't thinking of ghosts explicitly, but in the context of other recent work it makes perfect sense. I think the trees on top are the most ghostly, although now that you mention it, this goldfinch is pretty spooky too.
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More from the birds of London (Ont.)
- sally mckay 4-25-2007 3:19 am
Ireallyreallyreallylovethisone.
- L.M. 4-25-2007 3:25 am
potato chip
- alex 4-25-2007 4:22 am
thanks L.M., and thanks for the great audio, Alex!
- sally mckay 4-25-2007 6:53 am
but why did you call the link potato chip?
- sally mckay 4-25-2007 6:55 am
mnemonic
- alex 4-25-2007 1:05 pm
"Urban robins living in noisy areas sing at night because they are more likely to be heard, according to research published yesterday."
- bill 4-25-2007 6:02 pm
OMG that mnemonic site is beautiful. The green heron says "skelp skelp skelp." When we're lucky we get to hang out in a woods with a pewee who says "pee-a-weee" and "pee-yer" (Roger Tory Peterson spells it "pee-urr").
Very interesting article Bill. I learned from the nature channel a few years ago about issues affecting sonic terrain. Each noise-making creature in an ecosystem has its own frequency. I learned that frogs chant in synch in order to make each one less vulnerable to predators. If something, like an airplane, breaks that rythm then more little froggies get skelped up by herons.
I have noticed that our robins sit right on the peaks of the houses on the street, about 7 houses apart, and sing really loudly right after it gets dark. And they also do it right before dawn. But I haven't noticed them in the middle of the night (our neighbourhood is pretty quiet).
Another bird of London (Ont.)
- sally mckay 4-25-2007 6:57 pm
urr-mow is the cat word for hello
- galenagalaxian 4-26-2007 5:11 am
These animations also look like ghosts.
- L.M. 4-26-2007 5:59 am
That's interesting, L.M. I wasn't thinking of ghosts explicitly, but in the context of other recent work it makes perfect sense. I think the trees on top are the most ghostly, although now that you mention it, this goldfinch is pretty spooky too.
- sally mckay 4-26-2007 7:15 pm