White-eyed vireo
Chapter 5: More about Song Learning
Subchapter: Mimicry
From page 77 in the book.
Photo by Robert Royse
♫347. Example 1, ten renditions of one song type followed by ten of another. June 2, 2010. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. (1:32)
♫348. The imitations in ♫347 revealed. Listen (1) again to one of the first ten songs above, then (2) to three imitated components extracted from that song (imitations of great crested flycatcher, Carolina chickadee, and wood thrush), and last (3) to an actual flycatcher, chickadee, and thrush. The vireo's imitation of the flycatcher's upswept wheep has a slightly different tonal quality, but is within the range of what the vireo would hear from these flycatchers. (0:10)
♫349. Example 2, with more call imitations (5:30). The brief imitations of the northern flicker and Carolina chickadee in the first song, and of the white-breasted nuthatch and summer tanager in the fifth song, are isolated in ♫350. May 5, 2012. Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. (0:07)
♫351. Example 3 also features calls of the white-breasted nuthatch (♫6-11). May 11, 2014. Francis Marion National Forest, South Carolina. (0:34)