Tweet treat. (Letters).Regarding "Save Our Sounds" (SN: 9/14/02, p. 168), around the early 1950s, during the intermissions of the Sunday radio broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has long been considered one of the best orchestras in the world. Orchestra, the announcer introduced recordings of extremely complicated birdcalls. The sounds were obviously somewhat comparable to various musical instruments and marvelously complex. Perhaps one of your bird librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. might be interested in finding the source of the early recordings used in those broadcasts. Also, I have been teaching my local mockingbirds the "birdie, birdie" call of the eastern cardinal, followed by the two-note bridge of "Somewhere over the Rainbow." They do quite well in repeating them back to me and in teaching them to their offspring off·spring n. 1. The progeny or descendants of a person, animal, or plant considered as a group. 2. A child of particular parentage. . DOLAN EARGLE, SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CALIF. |
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