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Re: Mystery Sounds at Merritt Island/Florida

Subject: Re: Mystery Sounds at Merritt Island/Florida
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:58 pm ((PST))
Sound like a distant barred owl (Strix varia), Volker. Nice recording.

Bernie


On Nov 29, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Volker Widmann wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> My wife and me we lucky to have a rather short, but wonderful vacation
> in Florida the week before last week.
> I made some recordings, relying on what I just found wherever we
> stayed.
> I got a few decent recordings.
>
> Among my recordings there is one I particularly love, even though it
> is
> not optimal.
> I recorded at Merritt Island. Around 8.15 pm, just minutes before I
> had
> to finish (because the ranger kindly told me so), there were these
> amazing sounds in the far distance.
> I was in an oak hammock habitat north of State Hwy 402 a couple of
> hundred feet from a marsh area.
> The sounds in question are between 600 and 1100 Hz.
> It sounds so melodic, I have to find out what it is.
> Could be mating calls of some sort with call and response, maybe owls.
> Being European I have no real clue about American species, sorry!
>
> By the way the rustling was not me, it must have been some local
> wildlife in the saw palmettos. :-)
>
> Here is a spectrogram:
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/ygk9cu4
>
> *And here the complete recording in mp3 (a bit lengthy):
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/y97ltfa
>
> *I would be very thankful if someone could identify the species.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Volker Widmann
> *
>
> *
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "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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