Bird Songs Go to Hollywood

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Bird Songs Go to Hollywood

Written by Bob Sundstrom

This is BirdNote!
[Call of the Laughing Kookaburra]
An Australian Laughing Kookaburra guffaws in the depths of the Florida Everglades, startling a lost pair of escaped convicts.
[California Quail crows “Chicago, Chicago, Chicago”]
A desert-loving California Quail crows in the forested mountains of West Virginia, as frontiersmen watch warily for Indians.
[Call of the Eastern US Whip-poor-will]
A wholly nocturnal Whip-poor-will calls on a hot, dusty Montana afternoon, as cowboys ride herd on unruly longhorns.
Where are we? In Hollywood, of course! Movie-makers love to add bird sounds to a film, to evoke a mood or set a scene. But for all the attention to detail—for example, in stitching faultless period costumes—nature’s details often get a little mixed up.
[Continue call of the Eastern US Whip-poor-will]
For an eerie scene set deep in the African jungle, Hollywood knows it’s hard to beat the resounding call of a Pied-billed Grebe.  [Hooting call of the Pied-billed Grebe]
Small matter that the grebes are found only on the other side of the world. 
Take a meeting with the birds starring in this episode by coming to birdnote.org. I’m Frank Corrado.
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Call of the birds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Laughing Kookaburra recorded by F.N. Robinson, California Quail by D.G. Allen, eastern Whip-poor-will by A.A. Allen; and Pied-billed Grebe by G.A. Keller.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
 2011 Tune In to Nature.org   October 2011   Narrator: Frank Corrado

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