Bird song like brass mouthpiece? Texas USA (1 Viewer)

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 8, 2013

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Guys I was out the other day in The hills region of Texas. I heard a bird I had never heard before. It sounded like brass mouthpiece. It was a clear buzz. There were 5 beats total. the first note was the lowest. The second was a note higher. The third was a note higher than the second. The fourth note was the same as the second, and the fifth was the same as the first, except it was held twice as long as the rest of them. So that's 1, 2, 3, 2, 1.

If that doesn't make sense Im sorry, but I don't know any other way of describing what I heard.

 

Steve Gross

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• Apr 8, 2013

• #2

By The Hills, do you mean the Hill Country? Where, exactly?

 

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 8, 2013

• #3

Stephenville area.

 

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dan8402

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• Apr 8, 2013

• #4

The song you described sounds like a Meadowlark.

 

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 8, 2013

• #5

I just listened to calls and songs from both the eastern and western meadowlark, neither were what I heard. Thanks though.

 

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Po'ouli

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• Apr 9, 2013

• #6

White-crowned sparrows can have a buzzy song with a stair-step pattern. Can you provide more details, like habitat, location of the sound (the ground or a tree), if it was a powerful sound, etc?

 

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 9, 2013

• #7

I was on a hilltop under a radio tower, so it was pretty high ground. The sound came from pretty close to the ground. There were some downed trees around the source of the sound. I don't know what you mean by a powerful sound, but the wind was blowing pretty hard and there were other birds singing. It was not the most profound found but I heard it from around 40 yards away throughout all those factors.

 

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 9, 2013

• #8

The white-crowned sparrow's song is tweets followed by a buzz. The song I heard wasn't the same buzz, and there were no tweets at all.

 

RJP

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• Apr 9, 2013

• #9

Clay-colored Sparrow has an all-buzz song. It doesn't seem to me it would fit your description, but it can't hurt to give it a listen.

 

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papajohns2012

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• Apr 10, 2013

• #10

Clay colored sparrow is a whole lot closer, though you're right that it was the wrong tune. My sound was the same thing over and over and over.