ML626858985

Detalles de la observación

EDIT: As I suspected, this was NOT a barn owl. The regional reviewer says it's a great horned. I was not familiar with this call from great horned, so it's nice to have that resolved! ORIGINAL COMMENT + RECORDING: I know this is probably incorrect, but I'm very uncertain so I thought I'd throw it out there and let the regional reviewer decide (sorry to add to your inbox if this is an easy one!). At around 6:25am, before sunrise, I was walking a couple dogs in my parents' back yard. This bird was flying around calling, circling I presume. I never saw it, but the location the calls came from was constantly changing, and it passed nearby several times. It was not a simple flyover. the calls came every 5-15 seconds for a few minutes. I only managed one clean recording of the call on my phone because the bird was moving and because the dogs kept moving. I think the call is reminiscent of barn owl because of its screechy nature, but this recording sounds shorter than the shortest call in Merlin, and perhaps more truncated. I don't know what else it might be. I listened to other owl calls, thinking it might be an unusual barred or horned call I wasn't familiar with, but got nothing similar. I have heard lots of barn owls before, as I've lived in Idaho and the central valley in California, but it's been a while. I can't really remember whether they give calls like this on the wing either. As for habitat, my parents' neighborhood isn't great, but behind it is a large cattail marsh, and then across browncroft is Ellison park. Right on browncroft there is an old rendering plant (used to be called Baker Commodities?) and their complex of buildings actually looks from a distance like a classic barn owl roost site (I used to see them at old grain elevators in Idaho). Anyway, I am 95% sure just based on the rarity of the bird alone that this ID is wrong, but I just thought I'd put it out there with my reasoning in case it turns out to be something exciting! Audio attached. The clear call is at about 55 seconds. I trimmed a version of it with WaveEditor, but I can't seem to get the browser on my phone to find the trimmed file. I'll try to upload it later. Edit: there is another call from the same bird at 43 seconds that sounds much less like a barn owl.