By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Chook Tune of the Day
Stone Partridge, Shai Hills Useful resource Reserve, Larger Accra, Ghana. “Perhaps extra, shut beside highway in grass and scrob. Noticed the one calling.” Though no pear tree is current, that is however a partridge. (Ideally, I’d have offered a mockingbird imitating a partridge, however that was past my poor powers of search.)
And singing of one other kind:
Nonetheless brings tears to my eyes, far as I’m from it. Robust stuff.
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