Bird song Dodoma, Tanzania (1 Viewer)

[HinzundKunz]

I heard this bird song for about five minutes this morning.
I couldn't find the song in Merlin. The most similar seems to be gray flycatcher, but this one's still different.
Anybody who would know more?

 

[HinzundKunz]

This is the song, it didn't get attached to the first part...

 

[SteveClark]

I think Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Fraseria plumbea) - sometimes called Lead-coloured Flycatcher and Myioparus plumbeus. Check out the calls on Xeno-canto (Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) :: xeno-canto).

 

[HinzundKunz]

Well, I'm not really sure. But as I started hearing it a few days ago and it still hasn't stopped, I might get a chance to see the bird itself. If I get to see it, I'll report back here.

 

[S_Man]

Well, I'm not really sure. But as I started hearing it a few days ago and it still hasn't stopped, I might get a chance to see the bird itself. If I get to see it, I'll report back here.

Striped Kingfisher : xeno-canto (never been there, I was told the species).

 

[SteveClark]

Striped Kingfisher sounds very close.

 

[HinzundKunz]

No, we have striped kingfisher and they sound very different. I was wondering whether it could be a nightjar (like the fiery-necked nightjar). But I heard the song yesterday at about 17:00, so I'm not sure...

 

[HinzundKunz]

And striped kingfisher are very funny to watch too; they look like Pentecostals in a worship service. Every time they sing, their wings go up... ;-)

 

[HinzundKunz]

Striped Kingfisher sounds very close.

I looked at the link you included, and the first two indeed do sound very similar. But the others don't, and as I said, we have striped kingfisher here, and they sound more like on ebird:

https://ebird.org/species/strkin1/

So either it's another bird (which would mean that the songs on xento-canto have been attributed to them wrongly), or it's a new song that I haven't heard before. That is more likely, but I have lived on this farm for six years now and I have never heard them sing like this before.

 

[Butty]

I would have listened (in fact did listen) to the OP's recording and thought 'Well, it sounds a bit like a striped kingfisher but it isn't one' - but the Xeno recordings indicate I was wrong. I suspect that the 'usual' striped kingfisher calls I'm used to - continuous, rising and falling - are actually a pair duetting, and the OP's and first few Xeno recordings are single birds.

 

[HinzundKunz]

Well, I suspect this one is more of a "I'm looking for a mate" song, whereas the other is either a duett, or one calling for his existing mate who is somewhere else.