{"id":765,"date":"2008-02-27T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:50:13","slug":"bird-songs-of-eastern-and-central-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Bird Songs of Eastern and Central North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I love Good\u00adwill stores. Where else are you going to find a vinyl press\u00ading of Bruce Willis\u2019 rock band, or a biog\u00adra\u00adphy of Tel\u00adly Savalas? And you occa\u00adsion\u00adally find some\u00adthing that\u2019s actu\u00adally valu\u00adable or use\u00adful. Yes\u00adter\u00adday, I paid fifty cents for a two-disk record\u00ading of the calls of about three hun\u00addred birds of my region, keyed to the page num\u00adbers of Peterson\u2019s Field Guide, the bible of bird\u00ading on this con\u00adti\u00adnent. <span id=\"more-765\"><\/span>I was sur\u00adprised at the num\u00adber of calls that I rec\u00adog\u00adnized. But I was dis\u00adap\u00adpointed to find the Whiskey\u00adjack (<em>Wiis\u00adage\u00adjaak, <\/em>in Cree) miss\u00ading. How could they ignore the impu\u00addent trick\u00adster? It\u2019s dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive song is usu\u00adally described as \u201cwhee-ah, chuck chuck\u201d. It also whis\u00adtles and screech\u00ades on occa\u00adsion, or sings a charm\u00ading \u201cwhis\u00adper song\u201d when mating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/listening-2008-feb-whiskeyjack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-771\" title=\"listening 2008 feb whiskeyjack\" src=\"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/listening-2008-feb-whiskeyjack1-300x225.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/listening-2008-feb-whiskeyjack1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/listening-2008-feb-whiskeyjack1.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Pho\u00adto of a Whiskey\u00adjack tak\u00aden by Aarre Erto\u00adlahti in Lappe, fif\u00adteen miles west of Thun\u00adder Bay. Orig\u00adi\u00adnally pub\u00adlished in <em>Cana\u00addian Sanomat,<\/em> a Finnish-lan\u00adguage news\u00adpa\u00adper in North\u00adern Ontario.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Good\u00adwill stores. Where else are you going to find a vinyl press\u00ading of Bruce Willis\u2019 rock band, or a biog\u00adra\u00adphy of Tel\u00adly Savalas? And you occa\u00adsion\u00adally find some\u00adthing that\u2019s actu\u00adally valu\u00adable or use\u00adful. Yes\u00adter\u00adday, I paid fifty&nbsp;cents&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=765\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,947,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008","category-c-listening","category-cs-listening-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}