May 22, 2009
Stephen Colbert, Jr., World's Most Famous Bald Eagle, Debuts on Free Endangered Species Ringtone Site
The Center for Biological Diversity has added the cry of Stephen Colbert, Jr. (named for the star of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report) to its free, educational endangered species ringtone site www.RareEarthtones.org.
Joining the polar bear, beluga whale, gray wolf, and a host of other endangered species, the call of the eagle made famous by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert can now be freely downloaded as a cell-phone ringtone.
The Colbert, Jr. audio recording featured as a ringtone on the site is the world’s only known recording of the celebrity raptor’s voice, which most say is at least as distinctive as that of his father, Colbert, Sr. Many listeners even detect a note of sarcasm — or at least irony — in Colbert, Jr.’s high-pitched cry.
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