Report

Contributor

Date

Location

Jamie Hill's Waterford, PA, Marsh, Meadow, and Woodland Property
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 41.9315959, -79.956799
Age and sex
Adult Female - 2
Behaviors
Foraging or eating
Sounds
Call; Mechanical sound
Playback
Playback not used

Media notes

Hen turkey giving content “purr” call under my house deck while scratching in the dry leaf litter.

Observation details

Feeding under the feeder, on the cracked corn and kernel corn I spread there each morning. This sound recording is of two hens directly under my microphone, under the deck where there is no snow on the ground. They are scratching the ground and giving soft murmurings to each other. The correct name of the call is a “purr call” meaning “all is well” and “we are happy” as they scratch the ground searching for food. The sound is not great in that it was first captured on a Shure SM63 microphone, then amplified through a Sound Devices MixPre amplifier and broadcast with an Advent Powered Partner speaker. I then recorded it from there with a handheld Apple iPhone 16 running Merlin, held up to the speaker.

Technical information

Recorder
iPhone 16
Microphone
iPhone 16
Accessories
Merlin Sound App
Original file size
26.2 MB