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Various red crossbill vocalizations, including toop calls, brief flight calls, and some other things (?) Recorded at the Burkhart Trailhead. Edits: trimmed and normalized to -3 dB. Uploaded 2017 Sep 24
Observation details
Heard, seen, photographed, and vocalizations recorded with an Olympus LS-10 equipped with a Sennheiser MKE-400 short shotgun microphone. Spectrograms show the characteristic patterns of type 2s. Many of the birds were also singing. At times they appeared to be eating staminate cones from Jeffrey pines. I also saw one flaking bark off a branch of an incense cedar. One bird was a hatch-year male: its plumage was blotchy red and yellow. The birds were conspicuous in the vicinity of the Burkhart Trail parking lot. The characteristic flight call patterns were: 1. rapid downward slurring call with a kink in the middle. This is a common type 2 variant. 2. rapid upward and then downward slurring call without any kinks. This is a very common type 2 call. A recording of the flight calls is available on the Xeno-Canto website at: http://www.xeno-canto.org/139365 Direct link to the Audio file Here's another recording that includes songs and slightly different type 2 flight calls: http://www.xeno-canto.org/139367 Direct link to the Audio file
Technical information
- Recorder
- Olympus LS-10
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKE-400
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 3.37 MB