derisca

Updated: May 19, 2025

Nuttall remarks in reference to this bird, "His simple, rather drawling, and somewhat plaintive song, uttered at short intervals, resembled the syllables 'te dé teritscá, sometimes te derisca, pronounced pretty loud and slow, and the tones proceeded from high to low.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858