Your recording reminded me of a flight of geese that I heard at night
over my home in Sammamish, WA about three years ago. It was
completely overcast; yet, the birds were squawking away. At first, I
wondered why they were talking, and then it occurred to me that they
probably were keeping together that way.
What a revelation, eh?
A snow-goose newbie.
--- In "Jim Morgan" <>
wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Your thoughts about flight calls are thought provoking. I have
added a short
> recording of a small flock of Snow Geese that may give some clues
as to
> there vocalization behavior. As you can see from my notes, they were
> relatively calm and giving the high pitched calls but they soon
became
> agitated and the calls became more grunt like and they flew off
grunting
> like crazy. Unfortunately Martyn, they flew off before I could
offer them
> any tea for their grunts.
>
> Thanks to Professor Walt Anderson for the recorded narration.
>
> Jim
>
> 1-17 (0:31) Snow Goose - Recording 1: Calls of a small group of 35
Snow
> Geese at 50 feet. The recording was made from inside a car. As I
started to
> get out of the car, the birds began flying away. (Recorded by Jim
Morgan,
> Bosque del Apache, NM, 1/11/00, 11:03 am) Recording No. 14-9
>
>
> > You can access the file at the URL:
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/0146-1%20Snow%
20Geese%20small%20group%2014%209%20%20R6%20.mp3
>
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