The other day I heard a crow doing what sounded like a really strange, loud impression of a starling. Wish I’d had a parabolic mic, because the Merlin app couldn’t pick it up.
It was somewhere in between the normal chatter calls (only more rapid) and a sort of electronic, buzzy call like starlings will do sometimes, only loud. I wish the road I heard it next to wasn’t a main road through town, because it makes recording without a parabolic mic really difficult.
Anybody know enough about ravens to explain this? I think there's a raven mimicking a red tailed hawk shriek in my neighbourhood. I've heard the red tail many times through the years but never saw it. I've even caught it a few times of that birding app that identifies it as a red tail, however it always sounded a little odd to me and the last time I heard it there was some really weird low-pitched noises accompanying it. I've heard the ravens around here make real weird sounds, things I wouldn't think a bird would do. Like mammal-like sounds and mimicking some of the smaller birds in a deep voice. I didn't previously think they would "parrot" things, but I'm rethinking that.
Would post the "red tailed hawk" but don't know where to host .wav files anymore
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Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 314d
The other day I heard a crow doing what sounded like a really strange, loud impression of a starling. Wish I’d had a parabolic mic, because the Merlin app couldn’t pick it up.
casmael@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 314d
🤔 what kind of noise was that then? The kind of laughing one? •>
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 314d
It was somewhere in between the normal chatter calls (only more rapid) and a sort of electronic, buzzy call like starlings will do sometimes, only loud. I wish the road I heard it next to wasn’t a main road through town, because it makes recording without a parabolic mic really difficult.
casmael@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 314d
That’s really curious I’m not sure I’ve heard that one 🤔
What do you think the crow was saying?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 314d
I don’t know how well I speak crow, but to me it seemed like a ‘look what I can do!’ kind of call. Maybe vocal play or experimentation.
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 314d
My partner and I refer to them as Caws and Gronks respectively based on the usual noise
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 314d
Anybody know enough about ravens to explain this? I think there's a raven mimicking a red tailed hawk shriek in my neighbourhood. I've heard the red tail many times through the years but never saw it. I've even caught it a few times of that birding app that identifies it as a red tail, however it always sounded a little odd to me and the last time I heard it there was some really weird low-pitched noises accompanying it. I've heard the ravens around here make real weird sounds, things I wouldn't think a bird would do. Like mammal-like sounds and mimicking some of the smaller birds in a deep voice. I didn't previously think they would "parrot" things, but I'm rethinking that.
Would post the "red tailed hawk" but don't know where to host .wav files anymore
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 313d
Anti-raven propaganda.