David, This certainly sounds similar to the Ovenbird flight songs that I've heard while in the field before. I love how they seem to throw in snippets from the songs of a few neighboring species into their flight song. Don't know if they pick these song snippets up over time or if they add them in based upon what they hear from the nest or at their breeding locales. I usually pick up Red-eyed Vireo snippets more readily than other sound snippets in my past experience, but that may be entirely locale-related. It certainly helps to be able to replay the sounds over and over again.
The first one seems to have the following makeup: Unidentified Chips, Winter Wren, Common Yellowthroat, OVENBIRD, Unknown, Black-capped Chickadee, American Robin, OVENBIRD, Northern Waterthrush, Unknown, Red-eyed Vireo, Unknown. The second one seems to have the following makeup: Unidentified Chips, Winter Wren, Common Yellowthroat, OVENBIRD, Unknown, Black-capped Chickadee, American Robin, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Waterthrush, Unknown. I suspect these are likely from the same individual, just a slightly different combination. Very cool! Sincerely, Chris T-H On Aug 1, 2013, at 4:28 PM, David Martin <da...@naturebits.org<mailto:da...@naturebits.org>> wrote: On July 17 I set up a migration mic at Thacher Nature Center near Albany, NY. That night I recorded what I think is the so-called flight song of the Ovenbird, which I have heard only once or twice before. I recorded a very similar song on 19 July. I've been digging around trying to find examples, and the flight song seems to be extremely variable among birds. I've posted the recordings and sonograms at http://naturebits.org/temp_1.php I'd be interested in any comments. If it is not an ovenbird, what is it? -- David Martin Slingerlands, New York http://naturebits.org -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
