Re: The lowest frequency sound know from any bird.......

["chrishails50" chrishails50]

Richard I would love to read  that Ibis reference if you you could send it to 
me, better still if you have access to a pdf of it as I no longer have access 
to academic resources.

Many thanks in advance.

Chris

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> The Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) has a really extraordinary song, best 
> described as sounding like someone uncorking a bottle of sparkling wine, 
> filling a glass, then hearing the bubbles fizz. Truly beautiful, if you are a 
> female Capercaillie. 
> Anyway, the terminal fizz part is accompanied by a strange infrasonic burr.
> All this was described years ago by Scottish scientists in a paper in the 
> Ibis journal.
> 
> Richard Ranft
> The British Library
> London 
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