Just a quick note. I'd concur that this is likely a Dickcissel. It falls in the right frequency bounds for Dickcissel. It seems to have a few more "p's" in that "fpppt" call than we might expect for Dickcissel. It's quality is not one of musicality, which we might expect for a call with fully modulated and inter-connected parts. The disconnected nature (lack of modulation) in Dickcissel call is what seems to give it that "frappy" or flatulent quality. Someone once described the call as similar in quality to a piece of the sound kids use to make when the placed baseball cards in their bike spokes and rode around the neighborhood. Kids don't do that anymore, but I can envision this sound in my memory.
I recorded a couple of Dickcissels during last weekend's movement of birds. Will post at a later time. Sincerely, Chris T-H On Sep 21, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Jay K <azure....@earthlink.net<mailto:azure....@earthlink.net>> wrote: Geoff, Good recording - almost TOO good. I think it sounds right for Dickcissel, but perhaps what has folks concerned is that it almost echoes in the recording, but probably in life it was the short, flat, almost truncated "fpppt" to which we're accustomed. The only other bird I could think of that would be similar would be Blue Grosbeak, but it isn't "musical" enough, nor does it have the slight variance in pitch that that species exhibits. Jay Keller, San Diego, CA -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Malosh Sent: Sep 21, 2014 9:10 PM To: NFC-L Subject: [nfc-l] Buzz call over western Pennsylvania <o:shapedefaults spidmax="1026" v:ext="edit"></o:shapedefaults><o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"><o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"></o:idmap></o:shapelayout> Hi all, I heard the attached buzz-type call on the morning of Sept 19 during the very large flight over the Pittsburgh suburbs I posted about a few days ago. My first thought was Dickcissel when I heard in real time it but a few people have commented that it doesn’t sound exactly right in the attached recording, which is true. Northern Rough-winged Swallow was the other immediate thought . . . any other possibilities? The call in question is at 2.6 seconds into the clip. The same or a different bird sounds like it calls a few tenths of a second before that. Thanks for any comments. Geoff Malosh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Geoff Malosh | Editor, Pennsylvania Birds 450 Amherst Avenue | Moon Township, PA 15108-2654 | 412.735.3128 pomar...@earthlink.net<mailto:pomar...@earthlink.net> | http://home.earthlink.net/~pomarine/index.html =========================================================================== Pennsylvania Birds is published by the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology Preview the latest issue: http://www.pabirds.org/pabirds/pb_sample.html Subscription information: http://www.pabirds.org/PSOJoin.htm -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
