Re: [Maine-birds] Fee-bee

Learning to bird in MD, we had the Black Cap and the Carolina Chickadees. We could distinguish one from the other by hearing to two note Black Cap as "Black-Cap" and the three note of the Carolina, as "Care- O- Line-A" 

Bill Blauvelt

Portland, ME

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On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:39 AM, "Stella Walsh" <stellawalsh@earthlink.net> wrote:

Abstracted from....

 

VOCAL REPERTOIRE OF THE BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE, MILLICENT S. FICKEN, ROBERT W. FICKEN, AND STEVE R. WITKIN  

(http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v095n01/p0034-p0048.pdf)

 

·         Fee-bee.--The Fee-bee, produced as far as we know only by males, typically consists of two whistled notes

·         Fee-bee calling begins in late December or early January and continues into November, though sporadically in the fall. The period of most intense vocalizing is April-July.

·         When a male that is within a winter flock calls, he first isolates himself temporarily from group members, and we never saw a male utter these vocalizations while in close proximity to others.

·         During the breeding season males engage in short bouts of calling as they move around their territories, but we feel that they call much less frequently than do territorial males of other species

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