ML580296921
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Observation details
Listened to concert. Came back to record and it was still perched and singing. Sounds I recognized both before and during recording: eastern phoebe (3:50), three blue jay sounds including jays' own mimic of red-tailed hawks (3:21), killdeer (4:00), three Carolina wren songs and one call, Baltimore oriole song and chatter, red-bellied woodpecker call (4:52 and elsewhere), crickets (1:44), remote car lock beeps, reversing truck beeps, European starlings, white-breasted nuthatch song (:01, 5:21) and call, American robins including their alarm call (1:56 and elsewhere), gray catbird mew (3:08), northern cardinal, a mimic-response to a nearby singing tufted titmouse (4:23), northern flicker (4:58 and elsewhere), tree swallow, and house sparrow. Debatable scarlet tanager-informed chick-burr call at :53 and 4:49. Kudos to Merlin for ID'ing nearly every sound as northern mockingbird. Though now that I look at the spectrograms, this bird's sounds are packed with upper frequencies. None of the birds it mimics would have equal volume from 1.5kHz to 20kHz. The power at 20kHz amazes me on its own, since that's ultrasonic sound that birds can't hear. Makes me wonder if that's how a mockingbird might distinguish itself to another. Ended with a robin call as it flew a few feet over my head and off to another perch. The clipping at 5:57 gives a sense of how close it was.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 61.45 MB