High notes in the bur oaks: Songs of the Manitoulin savanna
![Manitoulin Island, ON (Photo by Steve Maxwell)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/kip-fleming-NCC-manitoulin-island-ON-Photo-Steve-Maxwell-thumb.jpg)
Manitoulin Island, ON (Photo by Steve Maxwell)
A bouncing ping-pong ball, buzzes, bugles and booms: these are the sounds of the savanna. For someone unaware, the symphony of bur oak savanna on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island may seem unfamiliar. For many species of grassland birds, however,...