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Re: Little Owl ?

Subject: Re: Little Owl ?
From: "Jim Morgan" fundador_four
Date: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:51 am ((PDT))
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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> http://wildechoes.org/exchange/Mystery%20extract.mp3
>
> No filtering or EQ applied this is straight out the can.
>
> This is not the normal A.noctua "song" but seems to correspond quite
> closely with the excitement call on this page:
>
> http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Athene&species=noctua
>
> It would be rare but not impossible in that particular location, but I have
> not encountered this sound before.
>
> All help gratefully received !
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
> http://wildechoes.org
>
>
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