Unfamiliar call (audio) - Upstate NY (1 Viewer)

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nfbirder

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• Jun 17, 2016

• #1

While checking a grassy field that sometimes hosts breeding Grasshopper Sparrow, I heard I call that I was completely unfamiliar with. It can be heard twice in this video—once near the beginning, and then again when there's less noise and it can be heard fairly clearly. The call has three distinct parts...1) a brief series of chirps, 2) a whistled "fwwEEE-ooo" that is repeated once, and 3) an extended "churrrrrr" that kind of peters out. Please note that I am not an experienced ear-birder and this could be a very common species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srg_ae-P2KE&feature=youtu.be

 

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AdrianB70

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• Jun 17, 2016

• #2

Almost sounds like indigo bunting, but I'm not sure.

 

RJP

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• Jun 17, 2016

• #3

I think it's a sparrow of some type, and at the moment Lincoln's Sparrow is my best guess.

 

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nfbirder

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• Jun 17, 2016

• #4

I think it sounds like a sparrow too, although the sound files I'm coming up with for Lincoln's aren't very similar.

 

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nfbirder

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• Jun 17, 2016

• #5

Also, habitat was wrong for Lincoln's (arid grassland).

 

Tiraya

San Diego CA

• Jun 18, 2016

• #6

It sounds like the sort of jumble you'd get from a thrasher relative, or another mimicking bird.

 

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Dancat

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• Jun 18, 2016

• #7

First thing that I thought of was some weird Song Sparrow variation.

 

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SEOW

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• Jun 20, 2016

• #8

This is a Field Sparrow. This isn't a common song variant, but I've heard it before. The first song given in this recording from the Macaulay library at Cornell is a decent-ish match for the one in your video:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/196442