Jesus Rich, have you hit it on the head or what!! I would now probably put =
a
few dollars on that being the pigmy and they are as common here as rocking
horse s@@t
Thanks mate, but what about the call in between? Still sounds like a quail?
Martyn
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From: Rich Peet
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:17 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Mountain Quail?
Not a Mountain Quail but does sound close to that.
IMHO it is a Northern Pygmy Owl.
See:
http://owling.com/Northern_Pygmy.htm#recordings
Rich
--- In "Martyn Stewart"
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> I need some help from the birders of this list, I was out at a
place called
> Cougar mountain this morning, not much happening and it was
extremely quiet,
> I got this call from a distance, like a hoot, definitely NOT an owl
but you
> can also here a slight cluck or quack sound, Cougar mountain is in
the heart
> of Issaquah, Washington.
>
> Now, I believe this is the call of a Mountain Quail? But!!! There
are no
> records of quails (mountain) here and I believe they do not come
this far
> north of the Pacific Northwest? What do you think?
>
> Recorded at about 8:45am TEMP 41F with Telinga stereo dat mic onto
HHB-500.
> (23.92sec MP3)
>
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> http://www.naturesound.org/Sound%20Files/Possible%20mountain%
<http://www.naturesound.org/Sound%20Files/Possible%20mountain%25>
20quail.mp3
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> Martyn
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> Redmond, Washington
>
> http://www.naturesound.org
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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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