Blackbirds' Strange Music

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Is that a catfight or a bird?

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0:00.0	This is bird note.
0:03.0	Blackbird songs have a strange music.
0:10.0	The red-winged blackbird can be heard in nearly every marsh on the continent, bold, brassy, and piercing.
0:17.0	The songs may not seem terribly musical, but they definitely get your attention.
0:23.0	Brewer's blackbirds, which live in open habitats like farms and grasslands,
0:29.0	have one of the most abrupt songs of any bird.
0:32.0	A wet slap in the face sound. Yeah, that was it. Listen again.
0:37.0	And what sounds like a snarling catpipe are the
0:45.0	are the combined voices of tricolored blackbirds in a California marsh.
0:50.0	Equally arresting are the rock Marsh.
0:58.0	Equally arresting are the raucous growls, whales and whistles the song we started with the red-winged
1:10.9	blackbird. For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann.
1:17.0	Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann.
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