On 10/18/06, Alt, Mark <> wrote:
> Wrentit
Hmmm, how confident are you on this?
My callers don't sound much like the ones I listened to in the
Macaulay library or here:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Wrentit.html
in that they *always* descend on each note, and don't really trill.
Also they weren't nearly so plump looking! :)
> http://quietamerican.org/download/dropbox/SF_CA_October_ID.mp3
>
> The call I would describe as a very clear, melodic, descending pattern
> of four notes, almost like the beginning of an etude -- almost a clear
> step down of diatonic notes across an octave. Quite unmodulated, no
> trilling, etc.
>
> The caller would alternate between this four note dropping series
> (with the fourth note down about an octave from the first) and
> variations on it that included only the first two or three notes,
> sometimes "resolving" to a different final note.
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