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In marshes across the country, birds awaken on a summer morning. Tall dense grasses and reeds often make marsh birds hard to see, but their voices carry easily across the lush, green landscape. You can hear birds like the Redhead, the Sora, the American Bittern, the Ruddy Duck, this Yellow-headed Blackbird, and many more.
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Marsh Voices at Sunrise
Written by Bob Sundstrom
This is BirdNote.
[Dawn chorus]
Sunrise on a summer morning. In marshes throughout the country, birds awaken. Tall dense grasses and reeds often make marsh birds hard to see, but their voices carry easily across the lush, green landscape.
[Male Redhead calls]
A male Redhead.
[Sora trill]
The Sora.
[American Bittern “pumping” call]
An American Bittern.
[Marsh Wren song]
The Marsh Wren.
[Yellow-headed Blackbird song]
A Yellow-headed Blackbird’s song.
[Pied-billed Grebe song]
A Pied-billed Grebe.
[Male Ruddy Duck display sounds]
A Ruddy Duck.
[Wilson’s Snipe “winnowing” wing sounds]
And a Wilson’s Snipe.
For BirdNote, I’m Mary McCann.
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Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by W Hershberger, Jessie Barry, Paul Marvin, Bryan Henson, Bob McGuire, C Gunn, Alice Andrade, Dave Herr, and Tom Benson.
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Narrator: Mary McCann
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Bob Sundstrom
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Mary McCann
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