Doug I'm curious, what do you class as "true woodpeckers? Does this include
all woodpeckers in North America?
Martyn
Martyn Stewart
http://www.naturesound.org
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat
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From: Doug Von Gausig
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:22 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Red-Breasted Sapsuckers in love!
At 09:19 PM 3/20/2004, Martyn wrote:
I got some fabulous Red-Breasted sapsucker calls today at Carnation Marsh, I
saw 11 in the day, it was certainly the first day of spring and love was in
the air!
This is a recording of 4 of them on a snag overlooking the marsh, I have
filtered out a lot of the noise pollution, maybe I saw 11 all of last year!
This was recorded on Marantz pmd-670 with a Telinga stereo dat mic, with
dish. MP3. 35sec. 29f sunny 6.30am
http://www.naturesound.org/Sound%20Files/Red-Breasted%20sapsucker.mp3
This sound and the one posted by Jim Morgan are great examples of the
plesiomorphic breeding "song" of the true woodpeckers. This sound, or sound
very similar to it, spans the whole woodpecker family (Picidae), so the
assumption is that it is a sound that has been inherited almost across the
board from the earliest woodpeckers. A good example of how to trace the
evolution of a clad via the sounds they make.
Doug
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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