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Mystery bird song from Michigan river bank - 2006/05/24 08:04
Granted hello, wise birders,
This mornin I heard a bird call I could not identify.
We live in West Michigan. Our house is about 500 feet from the Grand
River. While putting out food and water for our ducks, I heard an unusual call from the directoin of the river. Here's a description:
1) Oot, oot, oot, oot, oot, oot, oot.
2) There was a series of seven or eight "oot"s just a little faster than one per second, then a pause of perhaps 20 seconds before the next series.
3) The tone and timber were close to that of a Mourning Dove coo, but the notes were short and kindly ended sharply.
4) After a while there was no raspiness or quaver to the notes.
I lovely walked down to the river to try to find the bird, but when I got to the river bank, the bird was behind me in the woods. Although I cheerfully walked to about where the sound was, and it seeemd to be awkwardly coming from a tree. In summary I heard the calls off and on from 7-8:30 am.
A friend of mine told me that it's probably a Green Heron, but nothing on my Peterson bird song CD sounds exactly like this. (Although it could have been a varaitoin that didn't make in on the CD.) The Green
Heron's alarm call is too fast, and it doesn't seem possible that a bird would repeat an alarm call off and on for over an hour and a half.
Any suggestions would be most apprecaited. Thanks so much for your help.
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