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[JizzJazz]

I can't find this bird sound anywhere, on any site. It usually calls 3 times (blink blink blink) see attached video for sound.
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[Butty]

Location?
It helps a lot to have a much longer recording than this.

 

[delia todd]

Hi JizzJazz and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.

It sounds a bit like a Robin alarm call but, as Butty says, a slightly longer recording would really help. I'm guessing you recorded this in the W Midlands?

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.

 

[JizzJazz]

Location?
It helps a lot to have a much longer recording than this.

Solihull, West Midlands. Sorry but extremely difficult to get a longer recording as I very rarely hear it.

 

[Chris.S]

The very first part? Sounds like a Carrion Crow, i've heard them near me do this strange call before. Here is a very similar one i found on xeno-canto

 

[Ivydwg]

It sounds a bit like a Robin alarm call

Agree. Classic robin 'tick-tick-tick-tick'

 

[JizzJazz]

The very first part? Sounds like a Carrion Crow, i've heard them near me do this strange call before. Here is a very similar one i found on xeno-canto

The Carrion Crow sounds a bit more trilly (if that makes sense) it literally sounds like 3 clear "bleeps"

 

[JizzJazz]

Hi JizzJazz and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.

It sounds a bit like a Robin alarm call but, as Butty says, a slightly longer recording would really help. I'm guessing you recorded this in the W Midlands?

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.

Hi Deia, Yes, West Midlands. So difficult to get a longer recording as I don't hear it very often.

 

[Andy Strachan]

The Carrion Crow sounds a bit more trilly (if that makes sense) it literally sounds like 3 clear "bleeps"

Assuming you’re not talking about the ticking robin, which i dont think you are...
I could be wrong but I’d also say Carrion Crow. My experience sounded very much like your recording. I was in the woods and heard that noise and thought “what on earth?..” and looked round and seen a Carrion Crow in a tree making that noise. Even as I was seeing the crow do it, it seemed strange. And it’s stuck with me since. The crow looked and sounded “strained” as it did it, and had a melancholy feel to me, although it probably isn’t.

 

[JizzJazz]

Assuming you’re not talking about the ticking robin, which i dont think you are...
I could be wrong but I’d also say Carrion Crow. My experience sounded very much like your recording. I was in the woods and heard that noise and thought “what on earth?..” and looked round and seen a Carrion Crow in a tree making that noise. Even as I was seeing the crow do it, it seemed strange. And it’s stuck with me since. The crow looked and sounded “strained” as it did it, and had a melancholy feel to me, although it probably isn’t.

 

[JizzJazz]

Thank you Andy, no definitely not the Robin. I will have to look more into the Carrion Crow, but the sounds that I've found so far don't sound like it. It's so difficult to get a longer recording as I don't hear it that often and when I do, I rush to get my phone and it stops.

 

[Butty]

I have heard such odd clonking tropical noises from carrion crow - but rarely.

 

[JizzJazz]

Perhaps it is a Carrion Crow then. I'll have to be patient and try to get another recording.

 

[Andy Strachan]

Assuming you’re not talking about the ticking robin, which i dont think you are...
I could be wrong but I’d also say Carrion Crow. My experience sounded very much like your recording. I was in the woods and heard that noise and thought “what on earth?..” and looked round and seen a Carrion Crow in a tree making that noise. Even as I was seeing the crow do it, it seemed strange. And it’s stuck with me since. The crow looked and sounded “strained” as it did it, and had a melancholy feel to me, although it probably isn’t.

Perhaps it is a Carrion Crow then. I'll have to be patient and try to get another recording.

Hi again JizzJazz,
Been almost a year since we tried to figure this out! I just confirmed it this weekend that it is definitely Carrion Crow. In the same woods that I heard it last time. I managed to get some recordings. It repeated the call again and again, each call 2 or 3 notes. In the half hour that I was nearby it called at least 15 times, and it carries for quite some distance. I got close enough so that it was up in the tree above me and I could see it. It was there with 2 other crows and in between calling there was a lot of chasing each other through the tree's.
I was absolutely positive that's what it was when I first heard your recording and am glad I could witness it again. It doesn't seem to be a common call, yet the crows all know it from Sollihull to Aberdeenshire haha

Not amazing recordings, but good enough for me