I also regularly get Virginia Rail and less regularly Sora over my house in Gardiner, Maine and have recordings of them. I live in a suburban neighborhood with no habitat for them nearby.
I remember hearing a King Rail go over while chilling out after the World Series of Birding with other teams in the early morning hours in May in Cape May. Jeff Wells From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Irons Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:28 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [nfc-l] rails calling during migration Greetings All, While living in east-central Illinois several years ago, I heard both Virginia Rail and Sora call during nocturnal migrations. I heard these birds flying over my house, which was located in the small town of Fairmount in the vast corn and soybean "desert" of this region. The nearest potential breeding habitat was about two miles away. Dave Irons Content Editor BirdFellow.com <http://www.birdfellow.com> Eugene, OR > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:21:44 +0300 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re:[nfc-l] First recording ... rails on migration > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > Michael and others, > After my last email to the group Magnus Robb inquired about the Spotted > Flycatcher (Musstr) I mentioned, so I sent out an inquiry to the Finnish > birdnet about what migrants birders had heard. Among others Spotted was > "confirmed" although undocumented by recordings - hope that this will be done > soon. A couple of other interesting records came into moonlight. One such is > that when Tengmalm's Owls (Aegfun) are on the move they stay in contact at > night by calling - you can hear a flock moving by on a wide front. It was not > confirmed whether they do this calling during flight of if they sit down to > make these autumnal contact calls. > > Now getting to the main point about Rails. I got a note from Mr. Janne Aalto, > who lives in Parikkala just next to the Russian border close to a good Rail > site Siikalahti. He told me that he had heard three rail species in flight: > Water Rail (Ralaqu), Spotted Crake (Porpor) and a Corncrake (Crecre). He was > a bit cautious in calling these night migration calls, but he told that the > birds were all definitely flying and wondered whether they started their > display calls ("songs") when they felt that they were approaching a familiar > display site. The Corncrake was apparently further up in the sky. I have > personally heard coots (Fulatr) and moorhens (Galchl) call during full > migration. > > These sounds quite similar to your yellow rail observation. > > regards > Harry > [email protected] > Finland > > ------------------------------------------------- > Harry J Lehto, Ph.D., Adj. Prof. > Tuorla Observatory > Department of Physics and Astronomy > University of Turku > Väisäläntie 20 > FI-21500 Piikkiö > FINLAND > hlehto(a...@sign)utu.fi > > > -- > NFC-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > -- ________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Try it now. <http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009> -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html --
