This is rather ironic. After asking for Savannah files and never hearing more than one or two at a time, this morning the only sparrow in large numbers ended up being a 30+ flock of Savannah Sparrows. Now I have tons of visually confirmed Savannah flight calls. (Completely gone over the last week were the huge numbers of Song and Swamp.)
I also recorded FOY Meadowlark (3) and am trying to figure out what was rooting around in the 6ft grasses right next to me. (Best guess is a pig or a pheasant...short grunting noises.) Lastly, right at dawn, I recorded a loose flock of smaller birds (I believe smaller than Blackbirds/Starlings). I can't match the flight calls to anything and tried to attach the file but my message got bounced back. The calls are at 6-8 kHZ, somewhat burry, often double notes. Sincerely, Andrew Albright On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Albright <andrew.albri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you everyone for your help with the files....gives me plenty to > compare my recordings to. > > Sincerely, > Andrew > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth > <andrew.farnswo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Good morning all, >> Andrew, quick note: Conservation Science Program at the Lab of Ornithology >> has numerous recordings of Savannah Sparrow flight calls from past years >> (and probably last night as well, given the composition of recent >> movements), as does, I suspect, Powdermill Avian Research Center and a suite >> of other people. We're looking into some ways to make these available. . . >> >> BUT. . .in the interim, you should be able to find Savannah Sparrow flight >> call .WAV files for playback/review on the Evans and O'Brien (2002) CD-ROM. >> I believe that they are 12 or 13 files in the SPARROWS/SAVS folder with the >> identifier SAVS or IPSP >> >> Best, >> Andrew -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
