{"id":1239,"date":"2012-05-02T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T21:05:49","slug":"dawn-song-of-a-great-crested-flycatcher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Song of a Great Crested Flycatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the gray light of early morning, about 45 minutes before sunrise, one of the most enthusiastic birdsongs outside my open window was a brightly repeated <em>wheee-er.<\/em> After a few minutes of listening, I realized that it was a Great Crested Flycatcher, but the song was quite different from its daytime <em>whreep<\/em> or <em>burrrt<\/em> \u2013 not guttural or burry, but with a lighter, more musical, ringing quality. After listening a little while longer, it became clear that what had at first sounded like a repeated <em>\u201cwheee-er\u201d <\/em>was actually something like <em>WHEEE-eer; wheeee-UP<\/em>. The difference between the two parts was subtle, not as greatly different as the typed words make it seem, but clearly two different variations or phrases.<\/p>\n<p>I think this was the dawn song of the Great Crested Flycatcher, something I don\u2019t remember having heard before. The species account in <em>Birds of North America*<\/em> includes a description of its dawn song that sounds very much like what I heard. A Great Crested Flycatcher is frequently around our house and yard, so it\u2019s not surprising that it would be one of our early morning singers. The <em>BNA<\/em> account also describes a third part of the dawn song that is very low and difficult to hear, a kind of <em>prrr <\/em>or <em>chrrr.<\/em> I did not hear this part.<\/p>\n<p>Although the dawn chorus has seemed rather subdued most of this spring season, with fewer singers than usual \u2013 especially fewer neotropical migrants \u2013 it\u2019s still a beautiful time. Two Chipping Sparrows sang their short bursts of trills; Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Bluebird, Pine Warbler, Tufted Titmouse, Northern Mockingbird and Brown Thrasher also sang. A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher called <em>spee<\/em> \u2013 though I didn\u2019t hear it sing.<\/p>\n<p>*Wesley E. Lanyon, 1997. Great Crested Flycatcher (<em>Myiarchus<\/em> <em>crinitus<\/em>), <a title=\"The Birds of North America Online\" href=\"http:\/\/bna.birds.cornell.edu\/bna\/species\/300\/articles\/introduction\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','bna.birds.cornell.edu']);\"><em>The Birds of North America Online<\/em> <\/a>(A. Poole, Ed.) Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the gray light of early morning, about 45 minutes before sunrise, one of the most enthusiastic birdsongs outside my open window was a brightly repeated wheee-er. After a few minutes of listening, I realized that it was a Great Crested Flycatcher, but the song was quite different from its daytime whreep or burrrt \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}