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One other possibility to consider here is a partial call from a female Virginia Rail. After listening to the call again, it may be a little low for Black Rail, and the temporal pattern (April 21) seems better for Virginia. Just an alternate hypothesis! Michael Michael O'Brien Victor Emanuel Nature Tours www.ventbird.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Van Doren" <nimajn...@gmail.com> To: NFC-L@cornell.edu Cc: "Michael O'Brien" <tsw...@comcast.net>, "Tom Burke" <tom.bu...@mcgladrey.com>, "Andrew Farnsworth" <andrew.farnswo...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 5:16:08 PM Subject: Apparent flyover BLACK RAIL female advertising call (Westchester Co., NY) Hi all, Michael O'Brien kindly informed me that I posses a recording of an apparent BLACK RAIL's female advertising call, a rarely-recorded vocalization! I've attached it in this message; it was recorded on 4/21/2011 at 8:50 PM from the Marshlands Conservancy in Rye, NY. The microphone was located in a field, and despite combing through the surrounding many minutes of the raw recordings I can't find any other vocalizations, so it seems that this was flyover bird passing through (though there is marsh nearby). To my knowledge, there is only one previous Westchester County, NY record of Black Rail, from June 1986, interestingly at the same preserve where this recording was made (though in the marsh). So if anyone has a mystery low-pitched, loosely buzzy flight call recording that sounds like this one, you might have recorded a Black Rail! Benjamin Van Doren White Plains, NY -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
