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Re: Fwd: wing and tail sounds

To: Dave Mellinger <>
Subject: Re: Fwd: wing and tail sounds
From: Brian M Napoletano <>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:16:15 -0400
The only other term I've heard is "non-vocal sound" (e.g. Birds of North
America). You could also try to find the technical term for a cricket's
"chirp", and build something off of that.

        -Brian

Dave Mellinger wrote:
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> Many birds (e.g. ducks, guans, snipes, hummingbirds, doves, nighthawks,
> etc.
> etc.) produce aerodynamic sounds with their wings and/or tail as they
> fly.  Is anyone aware of a formal term for this type of sound?  The only
> name I know is a "wing whistle".   But this name is informal--
> aerodynamically speaking, the mechanism is emphatically NOT a whistle. 
> I've
> been casting around for other names for it (feather tones? aerodynamic
> wing/tail sounds?), but these seem a bit inelegant.  Bioacoustics is not my
> specialty, so anyone has ideas regarding what these kinds of sounds
> could be
> called, I would appreciate the input!
> Sincerely,
> -Chris Clark
> 
> 

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