ML381836841
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Observation details
These three geese were very docile and even at close range, with a shotgun microphone their voices were very soft. The grunting sound that sounds like an old man clearing his throat on each of the attached audio recordings is the only noise that they made, even when a large number of the geese suddenly were spooked by helicopter and they all flew from the grass, into the lake. The third recording gives a good comparison as the Cackling Goose sounds are interspersed with a couple of Canada Geese that are next to them. Wind noise was problematic and I'm thinking about returning to try to obtain recordings without wind noise; however, there is a rainstorm moving into Southern California this weekend, so I might not succeed in recording these Cackling Geese before they move further south.
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- Original file size
- 2.11 MB