-
linguistics Professor,
Thomas H.
Chippering,
originally published in
hardcover by
Broadway Books, in 1998.
Chippering is
obsessive about proper use of...
-
fairly shrill,
slightly explosive notes". Its
calls are "high,
sharp chippering", "prolonged, hard chipping", and "single
sharp chips given in flight...
-
alone in
branches near the top of trees. Its
calls are a
variation of
chippering and scolding,
including a "tsi-chik". The song is a
series of loud shrills...
- What is
thought to be the
dusky hummingbird's song is "a quiet, dry,
chippering warble". It
makes "dry,
slightly buzzy chips" and a
chattering call that...
- accelerating,
rising series of high, thin
notes ending in a falling,
chippering trill: tew tew-tew-ti-ti-ti't't't't't't'ti". Its
calls include "high tsi...
- to 25 days
after hatch. The
olivaceous piculet's
voice is "a high thin
chippering trill,
often descending in pitch." It also
makes a "sharp
sibilant 'sst...
- battlements.
Nothing then
disturbed thy
quiet and deep
solitude but the
chippering of
birds and the
rustling of the
leaves of the silver-barked birch.”Jean...