Thank you, Karen Husby-Coupland, for sharing your Carolina Wren witness this morning. I listened to a range of Carolina Wren songs and I swear teakettle is not in his vocabulary.
Only male Carolina Wrens sing—a
series of several quick, whistled notes, repeated a few times. The entire song
usually lasts less than 2 seconds and the notes are usually described as
three-parted, as in a repeated teakettle or germany. Each male has a repertoire
of up to several dozen different song variations. He'll sing one of these about
15 times before changing his tune.
The Carolina Wren
Sings teakettle teakettle
Except when he doesn’t
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