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ML25817001
Contributor
Mark Schwan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Cross Street-Home (Auke Bay)
Juneau City and Borough, Alaska, United States
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Media notes
Moaning call of Great Blue Heron at nest site. This recording has one play of the call. It is very faint, so to hear, you need to turn up your volume on your media player and speakers.
Observation details
Two herons were copulating, as well as bringing sticks into the assumed nesting location. Nest site perhaps 40 feet up in spruce-hemlock forest immediately behind our backyard. Another bird was nearby in the trees. One of the birds was making a sound I was not familiar with, a moaning sound which I thought was coming from either an owl or a dove. Gus van Vliet solved this mystery the following day, determining the mystery vocalization was coming from a heron.
Technical information
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- Original file size
- 141.93 KB