Bird Watchers Digest - November/December 2010

mation, I recommend the World Waterfall Database at world- waterfalls.com.

John J. Collins Raritan, New Jersey

Chat Me Up

To the Editor:

This June while driving through the north unit of

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Dakota, we paused to look at a large, yellow bird peering down from a cottonwood hanging over the road. I only glimpsed the bright yellow chest and some white around the eyes before the bird flew. That kind of frustrating observation might have led to confusion if we had not heard the strange noises the bird made: ank ank wheep wheep ugh ugh honk clang! It was just as Norma Siebenheller described in her species profile about the yellow-breasted chat in the May/June ’ 10 issue! We had another brief sighting the next day. Because I had read that article in your magazine (several times), I have another bird for my life list!