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Re: Newbie request for identification

Subject: Re: Newbie request for identification
From: "Serge Le Huitouze" slehuitouze
Date: Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:36 am ((PDT))
> > To me this sounds like a slightly unusual variant of a Greenfinch call:
> > http://www.xeno-canto.org/85095 although the slight drop in pitch at th=
e
> > beginning isn't something I've noticed before.
> >

> I did hear this call again this morning, I couldn't see the bird calling =
but
> there was a male Greenfinch at the top of the tree.
> Could this be a female calling?

It definitely has a fringillid taste (carduelis sp. or fringilla sp.),
even though
I doubt it's a Greenfinch.
[But there are Greenfinch's calls in the background, e.g. at 20", 26",
29", and almost permanently after 35".]

My best bet was Eurasian Siskin, but I was not convinced.
I asked people more knowledgeable than me, and got a
satisfactory answer: It's a Common Redpoll _Carduelis flammea_/

Listen to: http://www.xeno-canto.org/41076


All the best.

--Serge






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