
Species
The Hermit Thrush's Minor Key
At 4:42 a.m. on May 14, in second-growth hardwood above the Greenbrier River, the first hermit thrush of the morning began its phrase. The recorder caught it cleanly. The bird had been there for nine days.
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Species
At 4:42 a.m. on May 14, in second-growth hardwood above the Greenbrier River, the first hermit thrush of the morning began its phrase. The recorder caught it cleanly. The bird had been there for nine days.

Songs
Jasper Wynn spent four mornings in May at a 32-acre stand of mature beech and tulip poplar in Centre County, Pennsylvania, recording the assembly of voices that begins twenty-eight minutes before sunrise and finishes, mostly, by six fifteen.