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Re: Winter 2012 recordings - grey seal pups & a group of brant geese

Subject: Re: Winter 2012 recordings - grey seal pups & a group of brant geese
From: "Serge Le Huitouze" slehuitouze
Date: Wed Jan 2, 2013 7:57 am ((PST))
Hi there,

> Thanks for that - I always struggle with identifying species that I record,
> it's something I really need much more experience with. In this case I
> actually went to the Macaulay Library to listen to geese recordings until I
> found one that resembled what I had recorded. Would you know what the other
> birds in the background are, in particular the high pitched, gull-like
> calls?

The high-pitched calls are from Eurasian Oystercatchers _Haematopus
ostralegus_.
There are also a few Eurasian Curlew _Numenius arquata_ at 1'30'' doing
some kind of low freq trills (sorry for the poor sound description! ;-).


--Serge






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