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It's interesting to note that the 'hushed whisper' is universal to both nature documentaries and golf announcing. Is Tiger Woods as skittish as the blue-throated warbler? Is he won't to scurry off into the underbrush if startled by a loud noise, depriving us of the awe-inspiring sound of his unique mating call?
We may never know, but here's a fine example of the artform in a BBCWorldwide spot about nature's Rich Little : the lyre bird. If I had one living anywhere in my vicinity, I'd be spending a lot of time in the woods playing bits of old 1930's jazz, excerpts from the Marx Brothers, and Looney Tunes-esque sound effects. After all, who wouldn't enjoy strolling down a nature path and hearing softly in the distance, "BOOOO-OI-OI-OI-OI-NGGGGGG.....why I oughta!...stooooooormy weathaaaaaaar..."?
And while it's feathers may not 'liquify the rainbow' and Australia is a long ways from the Panama Canal, there is more than a little of the lyre bird in Craig Arnold 's "The Invisible Birds of Central America":
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