Long ago, we established that I am, at best, a halfwit in matters of identifying birds by their calls. Perhaps you recollect my blog from a few weeks ago when both I and my brother-in-law thought a backhoe starting its engine in the distance was a bird calling in a mate.
While
sitting in my hot tub the other day, a realization suddenly struck me. For
several years now, I have not heard a very distinctive warbling that regularly
emanates from the juniper and pines on the hill below my house. More disturbingly,
I have no idea what bird sings the song.
I
wondered, 'Has the bird vanished from my landscape?'
Thinking
I might be able to identify the bird with a bird call app, I navigated to the
Play Store on my smartphone and downloaded a highly-rated bird call
identification app. Once I installed it, I launched the app and then whistled
the song I used to hear into my phone.
The
app immediately responded with this: “That is likely a human.”
Cursing,
I immediately uninstalled the app and grabbed myself a beer.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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