ML600105191
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Observation details
Medium sized songbird with dirty white abdomen and undertail, and pure white throat. Mostly brown on the back. Noticeable large black crest. Long, thin hooked bill. Distinctive red whiskers on the face. Distinctive calls with which I am familiar from the population in Los Angeles County. I would really like somebody to explain to me why the birds in Florida count, while the ones here in Southern California do not. This is not just a static population; its range has been expanding east and south since I started birding 30 years ago. They are expanding very slowly, but they are expanding. Because this is a non-native bird I felt comfortable playing its song during the breeding season. This elicited an immediate response from an adult bird that perched out in the open in what could be considered the front yard next to 2201 Skyline Drive. This neighborhood is very reminiscent of the neighborhoods in Arcadia and Monrovia where this bird is common, with winding steep streets with a profusion of non-native trees from all over the tropical and subtropical parts of the world. I believe that I heard a second bird calling from the area of 1206 Miramar Drive, but I'm only going to enter the one bird that I definitely saw and recorded.
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