Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:11:44 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Scott Crabtree Subject: Re: Birdsong sound effect in theater MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was watching "Braveheart" the other night, and when William Wallace returned to the old homestead in the "Hee-lands," the solitude of the moment was broken by the song of a...."Grasshopper Sparrow!" No doubt the "twitchers" were clamoring to get in to the filming site! Scott Crabtree Chester, MD crabtree@myshorelink.com ----- Original Message ----- From: George M. Jett To: Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Birdsong sound effect in theater > There is no shame in Hollywood. Remember Gilligan's Island was a TV > show. It could have been filmed anywhere. How often have you heard a > loon in the > jungle scene of a movie? > George > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gail Mackiernan" > To: > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:22 PM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Birdsong sound effect in theater > > > > The Bare-eyed Thrush is a bird of the Lesser Antilles and the South > American > > mainland, I assume Gilligan and company could well have been > > shipwrecked within its range but it wouldn't be right for the South > > Pacific. > > > > That having been said, on (at least) islands of French Polynesia > > there aren't a lot of native passerines and many of these are now > > quite rare. > The > > relative low initial diversity was mostly a factor of distance from > > colonizing populations and there have also been a lot of extinctions > > and near-extinctions over time due to introduction of things like > > rats and > pigs, > > cutting of forest, etc. > > > > Probably the most appropriate bird song for "South Pacific" would be that > of > > the Common Mynah, which seems to be everywhere on these islands! > > > > Gail Mackiernan > > Colesville, MD > > > > on 12/20/2002 8:21 AM, Chris Starling at > > Christopher.Starling@MED.VA.GOV > > wrote: > > > > > I was in St. Lucia when I first heard the Bare-eyed Thrush > > > (Robin). I immediantly recognized the voice form the old > > > Gilligan's Island shows. > Is > > > that bird native to the south Pacific? > > > > > > > ==================================================================== > > === > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > > > ====================================================================== > = > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================