Enji
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Right, I know it's difficult to ID anything from a description of it's song, but here goes.
Yesterday I was out at around 7pm, in Kungshamn-Morga, a nature reserve just outside Uppsala, north of Stockholm, when I heard a bird that I couldn't immediately recognise. Unfortunately, I had left my camera in the car, or I could have used the video function to record the song...
It was a rather loud song, structurally like Redwing, but the initial notes where very hard, sounding kree-kree-kree, falling in pitch. They sounded almost a bit like Black Woodpecker (which of course it wasn't.) The second part of the song was not as loud and sounded more like a typical Redwing. It did not vary the song any, just repeated the same thing over and over.
I really tried to find the bird, but it was sitting in a pine tree and I only saw it when it flew away (I know it was the right bird, because I heard the same song from where it landed, maybe 50 meters away.) It looked very much like a thrush, both in size and the way it flew.
Now, I've heard quite a lot of Redwings, and I know they can vary a lot in their song, but all the ones I've heard have had at least a more whistling, melodious quality to the initial notes, not this VERY hard one. I've listened to all the recordings I have of Redwing, and none of them sounds quite like this song either (except structurally).
My guess is that it was a strange-singing Redwing, but I'd like to ask the experts and hear if anyone had any similar experiences...
Yesterday I was out at around 7pm, in Kungshamn-Morga, a nature reserve just outside Uppsala, north of Stockholm, when I heard a bird that I couldn't immediately recognise. Unfortunately, I had left my camera in the car, or I could have used the video function to record the song...
It was a rather loud song, structurally like Redwing, but the initial notes where very hard, sounding kree-kree-kree, falling in pitch. They sounded almost a bit like Black Woodpecker (which of course it wasn't.) The second part of the song was not as loud and sounded more like a typical Redwing. It did not vary the song any, just repeated the same thing over and over.
I really tried to find the bird, but it was sitting in a pine tree and I only saw it when it flew away (I know it was the right bird, because I heard the same song from where it landed, maybe 50 meters away.) It looked very much like a thrush, both in size and the way it flew.
Now, I've heard quite a lot of Redwings, and I know they can vary a lot in their song, but all the ones I've heard have had at least a more whistling, melodious quality to the initial notes, not this VERY hard one. I've listened to all the recordings I have of Redwing, and none of them sounds quite like this song either (except structurally).
My guess is that it was a strange-singing Redwing, but I'd like to ask the experts and hear if anyone had any similar experiences...
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