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“Oh, Bittersweet Canada” – Distillerie Mariana: Avril Amaretto Québécois

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“Oh, sweet Canada, Canada, Canada” is perhaps the best-best known of birdsong mnemonics in North America, familiar to birders as an aid to remembering the voice of the White-throated Sparrow ( Zonotrichia albicollis ). There are some who claim that the thinly whistled tune of this boreal songster also fits the line “Old Sam Peabody”.

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