6. Red-shouldered hawk counting games.
2. Birds and Their Sounds
Birds without a song just call
From page 14 in the book.
Red-shouldered hawk counting games. Enjoy counting? If you live in red-shouldered hawk country, count the number of kee-aah phrases in a single burst from one of these hawks. Just one tally can lead to questions. How many phrases are in the next series? And the next? How might these kee-aah outbursts vary through the day, or with the season, or when two hawks seem to answer each other? Given your close attention, you may discover other ways in which the birds vary their calling. Such information would be indispensable when trying to understand what the hawks are saying, and under what conditions, yet no one, not even professional ornithologists, has addressed these questions.