Is this the song of a Wood Thrush? I think it is.

I stepped out onto our back deck at 4:55 a.m. with my iPhone to record this.

All About Birds: Wood Thrush Life History…

One of the first songsters to be heard in the morning and among the last in the evening, the male sings his haunting ee-oh-lay song from an exposed perch in the midstory or lower canopy. He uses the song, which carries through dense forest, to establish a territory that averages a few acres.

And…

The Wood Thrush is a consummate songster and it can sing “internal duets” with itself. In the final trilling phrase of its three-part song, it sings pairs of notes simultaneously, one in each branch of its y-shaped syrinx, or voicebox. The two parts harmonize with each other to produce a haunting, ventriloquial sound.

In many songbird species, males square off by “song matching”: they answer a neighbor’s song with the same song, perhaps seeing which male can perform it best. Wood Thrush males are different. They almost always answer a rival’s song with a different one.

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