Thanks Mark and Russ for your inputs. I follow the pelagic birdwatching
activities in the US and look forward to a trip off Cape Hatteras during my
next visit to the US. The calls of pelagic birds outside their nesting area
is rather understudied imo.
Regards
Subramanian
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:12 PM, [naturerecordists] <
> wrote:
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>
> Mark is having difficulty posting to this forum, so I am passing this
> along. For those of you unfamiliar with pelagic birding in the U.S., the
> area about 50km offshore of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina is the hotbed o=
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> pelagic birding in the Eastern U.S. because the continental shelf is very
> narrow, and the confluence of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current.
>
> Russ Wigh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Oberle
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 10:49 AM
> To:
> Subject: Recording Pelagic Bird Calls
>
> Russ
> (I am having trouble posting to the recordist group).
> In June I have heard Great Shearwater making a
> lamb-like bleating call off of North Carolina
> when squabbling in small groups to grab chum.
> I did not have a microphone with me, but it was very noisy with the boat
> motor
>
> >2d. Re: Recording Pelagic Bird Calls
> > Posted by: "Subramanian Sankar" subbush
> > Date: Wed Jul 6, 2016 9:10 am ((PDT))
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >On 06-Jul-2016 9:26 PM, "David Darrell-Lambert
> >[naturerecordists]" <> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > My limited experience of pelagic is that most of the birds don=E2=80=
=99t
> call. I
> > > have heard gulls and terns calling which they seem to do regardless o=
f
> > > where they are but stuff like auks or shearwaters never seem to call.=
I
> > > will ask the question of some seabird surveyors who spends months at
> sea
> > > year if they hear anything calling.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
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> Mark Oberle
> Seattle, WA
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