three-EIGHT

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Staff naturalist Emily Boves heard a yellow-throated vireo, an early migrant, working its way through the shumard oaks on the plaza in front of the Visitor Center at Ijams three days ago.

As with vireos, the phrases are rhythmic and well spaced with dramatic pauses in between. The numeric mnemonic to remember the yellow-throat's song is "three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT ...... three-EIGHT."

The shumard oaks are also the area we tend to see and hear blue-gray gnatcatchers.

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