Contrast—hermit thrush
Chapter 9: Music to Our Ears
Subchapter: The music in birdsong
From page 156 in the book.
Photo by John Van de Graaff
♫647. He leaps from one song to the next, so that the frequency of each song is especially different from the one before, and after. May 23, 2010. Mountain Lake, Virginia. (9:59)
♫648. The magic of the hermit thrush's singing is destroyed when one of his songs is repeated several times in a row before switching to another, as artificially done in this recording. May 23, 2010. Mountain Lake, Virginia. (1:39)