Seems like all the North American *Catharus* do this, no? I'm pretty sure I've heard Veery doing flight calls on the ground as well. An interesting question, then, would be whether Central and S. American *Catharus* have such calls....
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu>wrote: > I wonder if Bill Evans could re-release the "thrush-tape" that Jeff is > referring to on CD (or podcast?) -- that is still probably the best primer > for learning the basic thrushes, and lot of us got started with that tape! > > KEN > > > Ken Rosenberg > Conservation Science Program > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 607-254-2412 > 607-342-4594 (cell) > k...@cornell.edu > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Jeff Wells wrote: > > Yes, and remember Bill's classic thrush tape in which he had, if I am > remembering correctly, both Wood Thrush and Bicknell's Thrush singing on the > breeding grounds and interspersing the flight calls in the song? That was > such a great tape! > > Last year when I was in northern Quebec I had Gray-cheeked doing this as > well but I could never record it..... > > Fun stuff! > > Jeff > > Jeff Wells > International Boreal Conservation Campaign > Boreal Songbird Initiative > > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:46 PM, "Kenneth Victor Rosenberg" <k...@cornell.edu> > wrote: > > Jeff et al. > > I have fairly frequently heard Hermit Thrush giving it's nfc on the > ground at first light -- especially in early winter, often interspersed with > "chuck" notes just as you describe. I have also heard both Swainson's and > Wood Thrush giving what sounds like the nfc interspersed with song. I > believe that this is one of the ways that Bill Evans first figured out all > the thrush calls -- by matching them to calls heard in various contexts > during the day and visually confirmed. > > KEN > > > Ken Rosenberg > Conservation Science Program > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 607-254-2412 > 607-342-4594 (cell) > <k...@cornell.edu>k...@cornell.edu > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Jeff Wells wrote: > > Yesterday morning I was out in my suburban yard in south-central Maine > watching a nice morning flight of birds moving over and through when I began > hearing the “chuck” call of a Hermit Thrush from the neighbor’s backyard. > Soon it began alternating between the “chuck” call and the drawn-out “whee” > nocturnal flight call. I went inside to get my camera to record it (my > recording gear was packed away) and by then it had flown up across the > street into the top of a tree. At that point it began just doing the flight > call with no more of the “chuck” call and then it moved to another taller > tree 100 yards away where it stayed and continued doing the call for a bit > before suddenly stopping. It may have flown away or it may have just stopped > calling and dropped down somewhere nearby but I never saw or heard it again. > **** > ** ** > I was able to get some of the calls on some video clips, one of which I > posted up on my YouTube channel for anyone interested. I think I have some > recordings of Hermit Thrushes interspersing the nocturnal call into songs > during the breeding season and I know I have a recording of a Swainson’s > Thrush doing that.**** > ** ** > Anyway, you can hear the calls on the video titled “Hermit Thrush giving > nocturnal flight call” at: <http://www.youtube.com/birdconservation> > http://www.youtube.com/birdconservation**** > ** ** > Interestingly, the second call it gives on the video is much burrier than > what I think of as normal and some of the calls seem a bit shorter than what > I am used to hearing at night.**** > ** ** > Jeff Wells**** > Gardiner, Maine**** > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > > > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- Jesse Ellis Post-doctoral Researcher Dept. of Zoology University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, Dane Co, WI -- 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/ --
