ML169166231
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- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
Icterine Warbler: I offer for comparison the present sonogram and ML164116901. The songs in both are incredibly long and diverse. They are both in approximately the 2-6 kHz range. Birds of Europe, 2nd ed., mentions Marsh Warbler as another bird with a long and diverse song, but the habitats are very different, and the present recording was made from a bird hiding itself in a row of trees, not in a marsh. Birds of Europe, 2nd ed., talks about a characteristic note that can be used for recognition of Icterine Warbler, a recurrent, shrill, nasal note, e.g., “gie, gie, . . . .” It is hard to translate that into sonogram marks, but I offer diagonal marks, running from the lower left to the upper right, and located in both sonograms between 4 and 6 kHz. There are two in the first second of the present sonogram, and a series of 9, beginning at 2:41 in ML164116901. (To be sure, the marks in ML164116901 also have a horizontal line as an element. And the series of 9 is basically uninterrupted by other marks, whereas the 2 at the beginning of the present sonogram do have a few marks between them.) In the absence of any full analysis of the sonograms, ML164116901 and the present one, let me offer one segment of each with interesting similarities to the other. For ML164116901 the segment is from 2:29 to 2:33. For the present sonogram, it is from second 2 to second 7. What we find in both of these segments is, on the left, upside down v’s and u’s, piled on top of one another; and, on the right, fairly long, fairly upright, straight or slightly curved diagonal lines, alone, in the midst of a long band of marks that seldom show such simplicity and clearness.
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- Original file size
- 252.09 KB