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Re: Mystery Bird

Subject: Re: Mystery Bird
From: "Kevin Colver" kjcolver
Date: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:51 am (PDT)
Common Poor-will.  Usually calls late dusk and early dawn from a barren
hillside.

Kevin Colver
On Monday, June 26, 2006, at 11:10  PM, John Hartog wrote:

> At first I thought it was an owl since it began calling as the
> darkness set in. It lasted about 25 minutes, and for a few minutes of
> that there was another distant one answering. The same call resumed
> for 30 seconds at first light. Here is that dawn segment =96 recorded
> with NT1As > pb224 > rh10; recorded at full gain; Altrac3-plus;
> converted to 16/44.1, low-pass filtered, and compressed to 192k mp3.
>
> http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-060625-0410_mystery.mp3
>
> Does anyone recognize this call?
> After pondering this a while, I think it sounds like a quail.
>
> For the Google Earth experience paste in: 44 02.858' N, 120 15.142' W
> The mics were facing N.
>
> John Hartog
>
>






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