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.
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> John Hartog
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