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From: gss@edsdrd.eds.com (Gary Schiltz)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: What is this bird?
Keywords: Only one clue
Message-ID: <136@arcturus.edsdrd.eds.com>
Date: 15 Aug 89 14:28:02 GMT
References: <1471@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
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In article <1471@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, nora@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (nora.y.mclaughlin) writes:
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  This is a guess the bird game, [...]
  
  It sounds like it is whistling through a long tube (if you ever did
  this you know what I mean).  And it makes this sound in 3 or 4  whistles
  that start high and kinda end low.  And the only time i remember hearing
  it is in the early evening before dusk.  Now , I live in North New
  Jersey and I hear this guy in the woods behind my house.  [...]
  
>/  Nora

Sounds like a Veery to me.  By the way, "It sounds like it is whistling 
through a long tube" is the best description of thrush calls I've heard.
In fact, this prompted me to try a little experiment: try rolling up a 
piece of paper into a tube, and under your breath, sort of whisper/whistle 
"Vee-ree-ree-ree" in descending syllables into the tube.  It sounds to 
me at least a little bit like a Veery.

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