[nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-02 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Last night, I recorded a few distant unusual-sounding screams (unfamiliar to me at my recording location), the loudest and closest of which sounds and spectrographically looks like a very near match for BARN OWL. This is an extremely rare migrant through Upstate, NY. I would appreciate any input

Re: [nfc-l] Barn Owl Candidate - Etna, NY

2012-08-02 Thread Jay McGowan
Very cool, Chris! Here is my eBird report from Friday night with details of my owl, for those interested. No recordings, unfortunately. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11248369 -Jay On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes < c...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Last ni

[nfc-l] Etna, NY - Barn Owl

2012-08-02 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
After looking into the recordings of Barn Owl (BAOW) at All About Birds (second example, "Territorial scream or advertising call"), I have done a bit of comparative spectrographic analysis using Raven (by the way, thanks to Matt MacGillivray for pointing out this recording). I hope the table be

[nfc-l] Etna, NY - Barn Owl

2012-08-02 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
I am re-sending this, because the two image attachments were being displayed inline instead of as stand-alone attachments. This was impacting the archival capability at http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html. The wave file was correctly being archived; it was purely an issue