The Hoh Rain Forest is known for its birdsong, notably the Pacific wren, a tiny bird with a remarkably long, intricate cascading song, and the varied thrush, whose single sustained, ringing note is often called the voice of the rainforest. The dense, moss-muffled forest makes these calls especially distinctive to attentive listeners.
Crack the window again and listen past the engine, because the Hoh has a voice. A small brown bird called the Pacific wren, barely bigger than your thumb, throws out a song astonishingly long and complex for its size, a tumbling silver cascade that goes on and on from somewhere down in the undergrowth. And up in the canopy, the varied thrush sings one long, ringing, single note that hangs in the wet air like a struck wire. People call that the voice of the rainforest. Once you've heard it, you'll know exactly why.
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