ML435066141
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I'm not sure why I can't add this as a Louisiana Waterthrush(outside of choosing a rare species) but because we didn't see it and heard it poorly I first entered it as a Louisiana/Northern. I'm now changing it to LOWA.I did try to record it and am including the recording but between a large crew removing a tree from water with chainsaw and all of the people and dogs out because of warm weather it was hard to hear anything clearly and the recording is noisy. I am hoping it will be clearer after being processed by bird. There is at least one Tufted Titmouse that dominates the recording but the waterthrush sings twice, once at about 5 seconds, right after titmouse and again at 20 seconds. The spectrogram looks exactly like the first example of LOWA in Pieplow's 'Field Guide to Bird Sounds..' In quickly looking at examples in Birds of the World the spectogram actually looked closer to a Northern, though not exactly. What bothered me about it being a NOWA was that what I recorded are two three note phrases following quickly upon one another, not the four or five note phrases generally seen in Northern, Those repeated 3 note phrases are exactly what Pieplow shows so I'm leaving this as a Louisiana.
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