Hi All, This appears to be a mimicked call of a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. Huge thanks to Dana Sterner for the ID!
-- Adam Herman St. Paul, MN On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:46 AM Adam Herman <adam.herman....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had an interesting experience yesterday near the Vadnais Lake reservoir > in Ramsey County. As suggested by the subject line, I think I heard a Blue > Jay mimicking a Ring-Billed Gull. I give a little bit more narrative in my > eBird checklist here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S66308727 > > Aside from the miscellaneous binks and bonks they make, I've heard Blue > Jays mimicking Red-tailed, Broad-winged, and Cooper's Hawks, but I've never > heard a non-raptor bird being mimicked. Apparently, this isn't without > precedence, either: https://z.umn.edu/blja_rbgu_pdf. > > Am I mis-identifying this? > > -- > > Adam Herman > St. Paul, MN > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
