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At this time of year, the most abundant sound isn’t coming from man-made things — it’s from birds

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May mornings are full of sound, but at this time of year the most abundant sound isn’t coming from man-made things.

I was serenaded by magpies across the street and robins high in the treetops.

At every place I stopped, I could hear birds like mallards and geese , magpied, crows, ravens and meadowlarks.

I've had this app called Merlin Bird ID on my phone for quite a while but I haven't used it much.

It picked up a loudest bunch of the loudest birds — a water-cushed water-rumped warbler.

East Coulee is a quiet place with all those big cottonwoods and elms and chokecherries.

The app found mourning doves and I got a picture of a pair of them, as well as chipping sparrows.

I didn’t actually need the app to figure out what was a black-necked stilt or an avocet. The killdeers were easy, too, too.

A pair of turkey vultures circled high in the sky over the badlands.

Meadowlarks sang from the sagebrush.

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82

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83

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73

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informal

Language

English

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22

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medium-lived