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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Hello Tweeters,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">I was just reciting Stiles’s phrase this very morning, watching two Northern Flickers dance around the trunk and along the branches of one of our big Doug Firs! Love this season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">I believe the original version of the phrase came from a 1920 Auk article by Charles Townsend,
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4073266.pdf">here</a>, in which he refers to “autumnal recrudescence of the amatory instinct”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">The song of courtship produced by the vocal organs of the bird varies from the rasping, vibrating note of the Golden-eye or the aa-ou of the Eider,
emitted at the height of the dance and display, the harsh scream of the Kingbird or the tis-ik of the Henslow' Sparrow to the clear, plantive, whistle of the White- throated Sparrow, and the serene, spiritual hymn of the Hermit Thrush. While the simpler, more
primitive songs are given forth only during courtship excitement, it is evident that many, especially the more complicated and aesthetic ones, although at their best and sometimes elaborated or extended under courtship excitement, are often continued and repeated
for the mere enjoyment of the performer in his own music. </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">The autumnal recrudescence of the amatory instinct<i>, often displayed in song, is well known.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">(As always, I’d welcome correction if an earlier version is out there.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Good autumnal excitement (in whatever form) to you all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Trileigh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79">Trileigh Tucker<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79">Pelly Valley, West Seattle <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79"><a href="http://naturalpresencearts.com/"><span style="color:#033160">NaturalPresenceArts.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79">tri@seattleu <dot> edu<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Elaine Chuang via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 5:14</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>tweeters@u.washington.edu <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Tweeters] "The Autumnal Recrudescence of the Amatory Urge"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wait, did that Anna's male just do a "J" dive display?! Have you been hearing bird song or observing somewhat unseasonal behavior lately? We have begun to enjoy the annual avian phenomenon that's based upon
<span style="color:black;background:white">partial reactivation of breeding behavior. Whether triggered by the effects of changing light levels on birdy hormones (the prevailing explanation), or other factors, the shift has p</span>oetically become known as,
"The Autumnal Recrudescence of the Amatory Urge." Please honor Susan Stiles, who gave us this lovely bit of verse (plus thanks to Dennis Paulson and Teri Martine):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">"The Autumnal Recrudescence of the Amatory Urge" - by Susan Stiles (December 1973)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The autumnal recrudescence of the amatory urge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">In my humble opinion, the scientifically best and yet 'readable' article (2016) on the general topic, is
by the wonderful "GrrlScientist" (<a href="https://about.me/grrlscientist">https://about.me/grrlscientist</a>): "</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292929;letter-spacing:-.15pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Why do songbirds sing in autumn?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">"</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> <a href="https://medium.com/@GrrlScientist/why-do-songbirds-sing-in-the-autumn-grrlscientist-2017eeec7e03">https://medium.com/@GrrlScientist/why-do-songbirds-sing-in-the-autumn-grrlscientist-2017eeec7e03</a>
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