A birder's poem
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Here are the phrases that birders use to identify bird calls:
Yellow warbler: Sweet, sweet, summer sweet.
White-throated sparrow: Oh sweet Canada, Canada, Canada.
Black-throated blue warbler: I am so lazy.
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Olive-sided flycatcher: Quick-three-beers!
Golden-cheeked warbler: Lazy daisy.
Chestnut-sided warbler: Pleased, pleased to meet you!
Great horned owl: Who? Who? Who?
Prairie chicken: Old Man Muldoon, Muldoon, Muldoon.
Blue jay: Jay! Jay! Jay!
Tufted titmouse: Peter! Peter! Peter!
Red-eyed vireo: Here I am, way up here, see me?
Black-capped chickadee: Here sweety.
Least sandpiper: Creeep! Creeep! Creeep!
Warbling vireo: I'll grab you and I'll hold you and I'll squeeze you til you squirt!
Ovenbird: Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!
Whip-poor-will: Whip-Poor-Will, whip-Poor-Will.
Great-crested flycatcher: Weep, weep, weep!
American bittern: Plum puddin, plum puddin, plum puddin!
American goldfinch: Potato chips, potato chips, potato chips.
Carolina wren: Tea kettle, tea kettle, tea kettle!
Ash-throated flycatcher: Tea-for-two, tea-for-two!
Rufous-sided towhee (Eastern towhee): Drink your tea!
Barred owl: Who-cooks-for-you-all?
Eastern meadowlark: See-you, see-year!
