Hi Jim --

I believe it is the Bent Life History series that has good descriptions of 
3 different grasshopper songs/calls and associates them with the stage of 
nesting. This was useful during the earlier Atlas efforts and I first 
became aware of these different 'songs' during the Montgomery Atlas in the 
1970s.

Cheers,
Kathy

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USGS Patuxent WRC BBL
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[MDOSPREY] Song of the Grasshopper Sparrow






I was listening to a Grasshopper Sparrow last evening.  It did its 
'tic-tic 
tzeeee' several times and then after one repetition it broke into a bright 

bubbly song that was a bit prolonged.  I have heard this once or twice 
before.  Is this common for the Grasshooper sparrow?

Jim Wilson
Queenstown