Most of the large flocks of Starlings have been eliminated within the
midwest US. It was their eating of agricultural crops that did them
in as they are still being killed.
I enjoy recording them as they are great mimics of other birds. What
is hard is to find, is them without people noise being around.
Linked is a 845kb file in 5 segments.
http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/starmimics.mp3
Recorded in a small town in Pine County, MN 2003
Starling Bird Imitations:
1st: Raven, Red-bellied Woodpecker
2nd: White-breasted Nuthatch answered by a real White-breasted
Nuthatch
3rd: Bluejay
4th: Red-bellied Woodpecker, unknown, Mourning Dove, Cedar Waxwing
5th: Bluejay, Mourning Dove flight call.
The list goes on as to what their voices can do.
Rich
--- In "Dominique Laloux"
<> wrote:
> The list is pretty quiet for the moment so, even though this is
nothing
> really special, I though I would share it...
>
> For the last month or so, a small band of about 50 Common Starlings
> (Sturnus vulgaris) is using our hedge of cherry laurels as a
dormitory.
> I have never seen them arrive, but we have been hearing them most
> mornings when leaving for work. Last weekend, I watched about 35 of
them
> leaving in the morning...
>
> Here is a recording of the background noise we can hear most
mornings
> when leaving the house : <http://www.pca.be/samples/Etourneaux.mp3>
> http://www.pca.be/samples/Etourneaux.mp3 (file size : 1Mb)
>
> Someone on another list mentionned, just a few days ago, a "giant"
> dormitory in the East of Belgium, where perhaps as many as 200,000
birds
> come back every night. I wonder what the level of noise might be.
>
> I have seen twice in the past some huge clouds of these birds : one
was
> just above the Vatican (I recorded it on video), the other was
along a
> highway not far from home. The impression given by that one was of a
> live funnel, with thousands of birds "dropping" from the cloud into
> large bushes. Quite an experience...
>
> DL
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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