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songs with birds

mourning dove
broad-tailed humming bird
black-throated sparrow
Arizona cardinal
canyon towhee
black-throated warbler
red-tailed hawk
cactus wren
common raven

-29%
-49%
-68%
-74%
-65%
-71%
0%
-49%
0%

One bright day as I was walking, I came upon a yellow chair. A place for me to sit I thought. And so I sat, and feeling a bit wistful I sang a few songs -- love songs. I imagined then a chorus of birds and maybe a few cicadas and crickets joining me in my lament, as the songs of longing and loss are universal, timeless and timely, and interspecies. The bird songs you hear are of those listed above. They dwell in the southwestern sector of North America among other places. The percentages correspond to their population decline or growth in this locale since 1967, according to the Audubon Society of Tucson, Arizona.

audio composition:
Jesse Gould / Valerie Constantino

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