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- Sounds
- Flight call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Type two flight calls (multiple variants, some with subtle differences) and toop calls. Some of the flight calls have unusually deep kinks. Edits to the file: trimmed and normalized to -3 dB. Extracted from later in the same file as in ML68912741, but I edited out some human voices.
Observation details
We saw multiple flocks of red crossbills flying in the area. We also saw some very well feeding on cones in Jeffrey pines. I photographed a few including one juvenile. Vocalizations recorded extensively while the birds were perched and in flight. I used an Olympus LS-10 equipped with a Sennheiser MKE-400 short shotgun microphone. Vocalizations were soft and loud "gyp gyp gyp" calls. We have extensive experience with identifying RECRs by sound, but we also confirmed the identifications by seeing most of the birds using 8x32 binoculars. Sonograms generated using the Raven Lite software indicate that these were type 2s. Two recordings appear below.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Olympus LS-10
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKE-400
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 1.44 MB