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Re: Re: desert toad id needed

Subject: Re: Re: desert toad id needed
From: Wil Hershberger <>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:51:21 -0400
Sounds like Ocecanthus quadripunctatus to me.
Here is a jpg that compares Dan's recording with that of O.q.
http://f4.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cDczQ07ueQB3zCRhP0TUstFNFAoLcGayp4KDa24stOTpKs=
GMCUqzNqRPOCqLp_ww7bFaaAmfkvaA-Hf9O56Y-HpjU-PjMS9NAAUjgR4/treecricketcompar=
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Wil Hershberger

John Hartog wrote:

>Thanks for sharing your recording Dan. It inspired me to go on a
>mid-afternoon research spree.
>Are you sure it's a toad?  I reviewed the toads on the Frog and Toad
>Calls of the Pacific Coast CD.  The only toad they mention that calls
>for such a long duration is the Great Plains Toad, but its call is
>somewhat lower in pitch and the trill sounds more like a "jackhammer."
>I went to the Lava Beds National Monument website, and the only toad
>they list is the Boreal Toad which doesn't sound anything like yours.
>Thinking your recording sounded more like a cricket than a toad, I did
>a search on cricket sounds which led me to our friend Doug's website:
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>http://www.naturesongs.com/
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>In his insect sounds section I found a Tree Cricket recording that
>sounds similar to your recording.=20
>A bit more searching brought me to the Singing Insects of North
>America website:
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>http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm
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>If you go to the Tree Crickets section, there are some that sound (at
>least to me) just like your recording. What a great resource for
>singing insect sounds.
>I'll place my bet on Oecanthus californicus - Western Tree Cricket.
>-John Hartog
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>>Dear friends, I've uploaded a 1:20 192K stereo 1.8MB MP3 to my web site:
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>>http://www.dandugan.com/downloads/toad_sample.mp3
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>>It's toads I recorded in Lava Beds National Monument this summer. It
>>sounds to me just like the red-spotted toads I recorded at Joshua
>>Tree National Park. Could someone help with an ID?
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>>Thanks, Dan
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>>p.s. the roaring sound in the background and occasional flaps is a
>>stream of Mexican free-tailed bats making their evening flyout.
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>>-dD-
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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