Mary Esterheld responds to Karl Miller:

>>Thinking about that...I do wonder about bird songs...I know very little
>>about them, but I wonder how large their "repertoire" might be.
>
>There is an excellent and fascinating book and CD, "Why Birds Sing" by
>David Rothenberg.  www.whybirdssing.com

I posted a review of that book here on January 21, 2006, the subject
line reading "Some Composers are Birds." I cannot seem to find it through
the Classical Net search engine, but the URL is:

http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0601&L=CLASSICAL&T=0&F=&S=&X=145DCB1758953DEE01&Y=rjt1%40charter.net&P=10909

Jim Tobin