Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:22:50 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Birdsong sound effect in theater In-Reply-To: <38BA34ACF3E0D311B4230000F803503603D071FD@VHAPEREXC1> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Bare-eyed Thrush is a bird of the Lesser Antilles and the South American mainland, I assume Gilligan and company could well have been shipwrecked within its range but it wouldn't be right for the South Pacific. That having been said, on (at least) islands of French Polynesia there aren't a lot of native passerines and many of these are now quite rare. The relative low initial diversity was mostly a factor of distance from colonizing populations and there have also been a lot of extinctions and near-extinctions over time due to introduction of things like rats and pigs, cutting of forest, etc. Probably the most appropriate bird song for "South Pacific" would be that of the Common Mynah, which seems to be everywhere on these islands! Gail Mackiernan Colesville, MD on 12/20/2002 8:21 AM, Chris Starling at Christopher.Starling@MED.VA.GOV wrote: > I was in St. Lucia when I first heard the Bare-eyed Thrush (Robin). I > immediantly recognized the voice form the old Gilligan's Island shows. > Is that bird native to the south Pacific? > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================