How would this sound compare to that of a Gray Catbird?

Patrick
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-----Original Message-----
From: MO Wild Bird Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Bill Eddleman
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:50 AM
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Subject: Re: Yellow-bellied sapsucker-Vocalizations

Just a minor correction. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers can be found in south
Missouri (or at least SE Missouri) every winter. I've heard the "mewing"
vocalization (actually, it sounds to me more nasal than a "mew") almost
daily in my yard in Cape Girardeau this winter.

----Bill Eddleman


At 11:20 PM 3/15/2004 -0600, Susa Hazelwood wrote:
>Hi Deb (and others),
>
>I've heard Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers make a vocalization that sounds to
>me rather like a cat doing a faint meowing/mewing. It doesn't sound
>anything like what the other, more familiar, woodpeckers do. Perhaps
>you've heard them and not connected the call to them?
>
>Also, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers migrate through MO and may occasionally
>overwinter if we have a mild winter (like the one just ending). But,
>they don't nest in MO according to Jacobs' and Wilson's MO Breeding Bird
Atlas.
>Interestingly, Robbins and Easterla (in Birds of Missouri, Their
>Distribution and Abundance) write the following about the
>Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. "Summer: There are no recent records, but
>according to Widmann
>(1907) this species was once a local, very rare breeder in the
>Mississippi River floodplains from St. Louis northward to Clark County.
>Recent searches of this area of the state have failed to uncover any
breeding birds."
>
>Susan
>Susan Hazelwood
>Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
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>From: Debra Fortenberry Priest <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:20 PM
>Subject: Yellow-bellied sapsucker
>
>
>For those of you that want a fairly reliable place to view a
>yellow-bellied sapsucker, Busch Wildlife Area near St. Louis is the
>place to look. In 4-5 visits over the last several years, I have been
successful all but once.
>
>This past Sunday I took my fiance there--the place to find the
>sapsucker is on the Fallen Oak Nature Trail which is behind the new
>nature center. The trees are full of small holes which the birds check
>regularly. The best place to look is at the bottom of the hill (after
>passing the bird viewing
>blind/wall) until the bridge over the creek (be sure and take the
>straight path, not the one to the right or the left). We viewed a
>spectacular male bird (almost at the bridge) who afforded us many
>tremendous looks. It was a life bird for my fiance, and probably only
>the 6th or 7th bird I have ever seen. You have to be quite alert--they
>make no vocalizations to alert you as other woodpeckers do.
>
>Good birding,
>
>Debbie
>
>Deb Fortenberry Priest
>117 El Rancho Dr.
>Hannibal MO 63401
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