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Parliament of Fowls Candidates' Night*

5/1/2020

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male’s loud bob-o-link
a harsh guttural chuck
three-syllable song, coo-coo-cup
a  faint and thin bee-yup or yep
a single, loud klee-yer 
a short, creaky koguba-leek
a loud and  high repeated seep
low grunts
a  series of clear, thin whistles and trills
occasionally a nasal grating sound
a weak twittering delivered from the ground
a whining mag or a mellow wurp
a rapid tremulous trill
three to eight loud and deep hoots
a plaintive, whistled pee-ee
a loud quavering, descending whistle
cheerily, cheer-up, cheerio
a high, duck-like squak
gobble, gobble




*In Attendance:
Bobolink; Bronzed Cowbird, Euyrasian Collared-Dove; Golden Eagle; Northern Flicker; Common Grackle; Blue-throated Hummingbird; Glossy Ibis; Yellow-eyed Junco; Snail Kite; Horned Lark; Black-billed Magpie; Lesser Nighthawk; Great Horned Owl; Say’s Phoebe; Montezuma Quail; American Robin; Pin-tailed Snipe; Wild Turkey

Found poem National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America



 



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    Nancy Harris McLelland  taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the  Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology  Cowboy Poetry Matters .

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