Just realized that you recorded this bird in Switzerland, which
makes Parrot a bit more unlikely, though not impossible,
and "Phantom" a more likely contender ! This said Ron Summers and
David Jardine found that many of the Mediterranean Loxia Curvirosta
sub species complex actually gave Parrot and Scottish calls !
More work needed I think. Could you email me the location and
further details of this bird. Either way your bird is an excitement
call D.
Lindsay
--- In "Lindsay Cargill"
<> wrote:
>
> --- In "Chris Hails" <cjhails@>
> wrote:
> > I posted 3
> > recordings of a Crossbill calling from about 20m distance at the
> top
> > of a 15m pine tree (crossbill1 orig.mp3), about half way into
the
> > piece comes the aircraft.
>
> Nice recording of Crossbill alarm call ! This is Excitement Call D
> (EcD) which in Britain is a Parrot Crossbill. Your bird is giving
a
> very quick cadence of the
> alarm and shows some structural similarities with "Phantom
> Crossbill"
> ( Constantine, 2006), a type of Common Crossbill apparently.
>
> If I heard that on one of my recordings in Deeside, Scotland it
> would go down as Parrot. Well done - not many recordings of those
in
> the public domain from the continent.
>
> Hope to get over to Sweden some time myself to compare Swedebills
> with our "Scottish" Parrots.
>
> Ooo I hope this is "on topic" !
>
> Lindsay
>
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