Hi Chris,
Here is a collection of Little Owl (Athene noctua) vocalisations from
Xeno-canto that might be of some help.
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http://xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=Athene%20noctua&pagenumber=&order=taxonomy&view=3
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My hearing is not very good so I won't offer an opinion as to the ID of your
very nice recording.
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Jim Morgan
Prescott, Arizona USA
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:36 AM, chrishails50 <> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> Can anyone help me id this sound ? It was recorded about 3 weeks ago near
> an old gravel pit bordering a woodland in western Switzerland at 500m asl
> about 11.00 on a clear sunny morning.
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> The sound seemed to be coming from an elevated grassy bank immediately next
> to the wood, and at the time I thought it was a small mammal in the grass,
> but I realise now that it may have been in the edge of the trees. There is
> not much reference material on it but my thoughts are that it may have been
> a call of the European Little Owl (Athene noctua). I heard it calling
> intermittently like this over the space of 30 mins or so, the sound carried
> a good 500+ meters which is when I first heard it and started to track it
> down:
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> http://wildechoes.org/exchange/Mystery%20extract.mp3
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> No filtering or EQ applied this is straight out the can.
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> This is not the normal A.noctua "song" but seems to correspond quite
> closely with the excitement call on this page:
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> http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Athene&species=noctua
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> It would be rare but not impossible in that particular location, but I have
> not encountered this sound before.
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> All help gratefully received !
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> Thanks
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> Chris
> http://wildechoes.org
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