Sunday, June 18, 2017
Bird distress call
I heard this bird sound in the back yard - it just seemed to go on and on. I couldn't see anything or describe the sound to Google, which sometimes helps me identify species (I nailed down Swainson's thrush the other day, after about a century of wondering what it was). Sounded like pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. . . It was hard to say if the bird was in distress, proclaiming its territory or trying to attract a mate. This video includes perhaps the worst camera work I've ever done, but the audio is very interesting. The sounds accelerate as time goes on until it's a kind of machine-gun bird sound.
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Yes, birds can be distress also and If you think your bird is distress, you should visit the animal veterinarian near you to check your pets condition. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI found out what this is! It's a red squirrel which was perched on the fence, defending its territory from the many black squirrels in the area.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCJknWCtR5I Not sure if this link will paste, but it's a video I took of a red squirrel on the fence. You could clearly see and hear him making that sound.
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