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Re: European montane mystery sound

Subject: Re: European montane mystery sound
From: "Chris Hails" chrishails50
Date: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:23 pm ((PDT))
--- In  Matthieu Crocq 
<> wrote:
>
> On Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:14 am (PDT), Chris Hails wrote:
> >
> >Can anyone help me with this ? Recorded at 1800m in the Swiss alps,
> >right at the tree line. > 
> 

> I think it may be a greenfinch (Carduelis chloris), with a slighty
> atypical song but those birds have such a large repertoire...
> Best regards,
> Matthieu
>


Dear Suzanne, John and Matthieu,

Thanks for your comments and encouragement. 

John: chickadees go under a different family name this side of the 
Atlantic (one that certain spam filters take out !) and your bird is 
not in Europe. But of that family (Paridae) our Great Tit is one that I 
am still open minded about for my mystery as it always seems determined 
to confuse us !

Matthieu: you could be right about Greenfinch, although I have never 
heard them do this before, but I can see where you are coming from. My 
other recordings of the Greenfinch "buzz" call differ from the "cheer" 
componant in my mystery by being an ascending "buzz" note of slightly 
lower frequency. Thanks for the pointer I willl continue to chase it 
down !

C






"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a 
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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