ML279033171
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- Flying
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- Flight call
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Media notes
these notes duplicated in bunting and wren species comments: I have personally always found the Snow Bunting flight call to be really similar to the Carolina Wren musical twitter-trill that is one of their primary calls. This actually helps me distinguish Snow Bunting flight rattle from the Lapland Longspur rattle, which can also be challenging at times. These almost always segregate easily by habitat/behavior: a bird calling overhead is a clear Snow Bunting and one from a dense thicket is a wren. But sometimes when heard out of context these send my brian to the wrong option briefly before I realize the origin of the sound. This has always embarrassed me a little, but I have come to embrace their similarity. So I felt even better when this Snow Bunting flew over, calling loudly, and while I was audio recording it prompted a Carolina Wren to call *in response*! The bunting literally "taped in" the wren! And on the spectrogram, the calls look as similar as they sound to me in the field. So all my shame is now gone and I fully embrace their super cool similarity in calls now.
Observation details
calling flyover; overdue FOY here; I have personally always found the Snow Bunting flight call to be really similar to the Carolina Wren musical twitter-trill that is one of their primary calls. This actually helps me distinguish Snow Bunting flight rattle from the Lapland Longspur rattle, which can also be challenging at times. These almost always segregate easily by habitat/behavior: a bird calling overhead is a clear Snow Bunting and one from a dense thicket is a wren. But sometimes when heard out of context these send my brian to the wrong option briefly before I realize the origin of the sound. This has always embarrassed me a little, but I have come to embrace their similarity. So I felt even better when this Snow Bunting flew over, calling loudly, and while I was audio recording it prompted a Carolina Wren to call *in response*! The bunting literally "taped in" the wren! And on the spectrogram, the calls look as similar as they sound to me in the field. So all my shame is now gone and I fully embrace their super cool similarity in calls now.
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Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 8
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Voice Record Pro
- Original file size
- 7.65 MB