Thanks, Mike, for solving the mystery so quickly! Sadly, I doubt the producers care that this robin isn't the kind found anywhere near their prospective customers. Let's just throw this one on the pile with all the other deliberately misplaced birds in movies, ads, and TV shows.

-Janet
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Bowen 
  To: Janet Millenson ;  
  Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 5:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Bird in radio ad


  I heard the same commercial, and shuddered accordingly.

  It's a European Robin, Erithacus rubecula, owner of one of my favorite sounds in the UK in winter, when it is not only present but frequently very vocal.  One of Europe's best known and best loved backyard birds.

  I wonder if there is some diplomatic way in which we can inform the producers of the commercial?

  Mike Bowen
  Bethesda

  At 04:47 PM 3/14/2011, Janet Millenson wrote:

    On WTOP-FM this morning I heard an ad for Renewal by Andersen replacement 
    windows. A twittering bird was proclaimed by the announcer to be "the first 
    robin of spring," and "she" was trying to convey in song that now's a great 
    time to take advantage of Andersen's spring sale, blah blah blah. Needless 
    to say, the bird sounds are not those of a robin (of either sex).

    Has anyone else heard this radio ad? Any thoughts on what bird we're 
    actually hearing?

    Janet Millenson
    Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
    
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