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>htt=
p://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
Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
Moderator
Nature Recordists e-mail group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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