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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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
Marius Doyle works through what the literature has measured about the hermit thrush's pitch intervals, which a 2014 study found to align suspiciously with the harmonic series, and what an ear in a Vermont wood actually hears.