Walt:
I don't think this chick was at a nest. It moved around through the night
and I couldn't find any nest the next morning. The typical calling pattern
is for a chick to repeat its call every XX seconds or so, in a fairly
regular fashion, for long periods . . . until an adult arrives with food,
then you get the excited calling.
The Barred Owl immatures on the Stokes Guide were very young, just fledged.
I saw them and they were clearly fledglings. I believe the own in my
recording and the one you recorded are larger and would look like adults.
There's no doubt a lot of variability in this call, depending upon age and
circumstances, but all would be a hissy screech of one sort or the other.
I also have various examples of Great Horned Owl young giving similar calls,
although they are usually either lower and more husky, or else they produce
whistling screeches that sound like a whistle when heard at a distance.
Some believe that the Eastern Screech-Owl was named inappropriately,
probably because someone misidentified the call of a young Barred Owl. While
E. Screech-Owls rarely give a screechy call, they mostly give whinnies and
trills which aren't at all like a screech.
Lang
From: Lang Elliott <>
>
> Hmmm. Check this out:
>
> http://www.naturesound.com/mp3/barredowl.mp3
Nice! Like the Pig Frog.
In this the chicks are still in the nest, I presume. In what I've got
they are out roaming around. Have you run across them at that older
stage? These ones you have are not near as organized callers.
Right now we are in the annual Redtail Hawk circus. We have Redtails
that nest on the back of our place in the woods, and when the young
leave the nest each year we get weeks of amusement as they learn how to
be dignified hawks. With not much success at first, they tend to learn
hunting in our front field. The rabbits are safe as long as they lay off
laughing long enough to run once in a while. The hawks do not give a
chick call at this stage as far as I can tell, just adult type calls. I
expect owls are no different in the learning stage.
Walt
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