Note: links are to demonstrate the sound of the bird I heard...the image in the video is NOT the bird I saw, which is from Calfornia.
I've heard this bird for a month or two and it made me think of an owly kind of sound.
However, yesterday, I finally spotted the bird. At first I thought it a bit pigeon-*shaped*, but much more slender than the street pigeons we see around here. It was hard to make out the colour against the bright cloudy morning, but it seemed grey/dark-grey, and from lots of head movement (and trying to get a look at me), it seemed very interested in the environment . It was up on the power lines and I tried to get a pic but it's too small.
The call sounds like the "whistle" kids do by cupping their hands (or a mellow wood-flute sound). Usually hooh-HOOOOH-hooh repeatedly, and more recently, HOOH-hooh-HOOOOOH-hooh.
CALLS: From what I can piece together from this site and YouTube, I'm thinking it's some kind of dove. The calls I found online for the Oriental Turtle Dove, and the Eurasian Collared-Dove were the closest sound files I could find. This video demonstrates the call the bird made, and is *not* the actual bird I heard.
The third, raspier sound at the end of this 3-note call is *not* what I'm hearing, but the first two sounds are:
In this sound file it's similar to what you hear up to 0:04
http://identify.what...lared-Dove.aspx
Any thoughts? From what I could find online it doesn't look like these are native.
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Posted 16 July 2012 - 11:57 PM
It is some kind of dove, it's a Spotted Dove. Originally from Asia, there are a few breeding populations in Sothern California and they are very common on Oahu (probably other islands in Hawai'i as well). I don't know if they are breeding in BC of if this is an escapee, though.
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 12:47 AM
I saw these on Kauai...Spotted Dove.
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 01:37 AM
The pic and the video are not the OP's, he just put them there because they are similar, but not the same, as what he heard. The description sounds like a mourning dove.
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 01:41 AM
I missed that and was going by the picture. Sorry.
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:18 AM
Ditto for me. The original post does not make it clear that the youtube clip is not the bird.I missed that and was going by the picture. Sorry.
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Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
Latest Lifer(s):Harris's Sparrow, Oka Ponds, Campbell, CA, 1/1/13
Favorite Recent Bird(s):Yellow-breasted Chat, Knights Ferry Rec Area, Knights Ferry, CA, 5/20/13; Blue-winged Teal (Pair), Peregrine Falcon, Sanderling (3),Franklin's Gull (9), Modesto Wastewater Treatment Facility, Modesto, CA, 5/12/13, MacGillivray's Warber, Adair Rd., Modesto, CA, 5/5/13, Long-eared Owl, Mercy Hot Springs, Fresno County, CA, 4/29/13, Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, Panoche Shool, San Benito County, CA, 4/29/13,Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, McHenry Rec Area, Escalon, CA, 4/21/13, Snowy Plover, Modesto Water Treatment Plant, Modesto, CA, 4/14/13, Blue-winged Teal, Redhead, San Luis NWR, Merced County, CA, 3/11/13, Eurasian Wigeon, American Bittern, Santa Fe Grade Rd., Merced County,, CA, 3/9/13
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:37 AM
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:45 AM
Hmm, mourning dove, perhaps? I'd be interested in sound files for mourning doves that you can direct me to, if possible. The ones I found didn't really sound like bird I heard.
I just checked the sound file on this site. Surprisingly the owl sound it compares to is more like what I heard and the MD sound not similar at all (but the pic seems along the right lines).
I just checked the sound file on this site. Surprisingly the owl sound it compares to is more like what I heard and the MD sound not similar at all (but the pic seems along the right lines).
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:54 AM
(sorry for the additional post, didn't know I couldn't edit my previous reply) 
I have found other mourning dove calls online, but they all seem to demonstrate a higher pitch on the "second" or "long" hooh. The bird I heard didn't; all pitches were the same (the long one was just longer and a bit louder).
I have found other mourning dove calls online, but they all seem to demonstrate a higher pitch on the "second" or "long" hooh. The bird I heard didn't; all pitches were the same (the long one was just longer and a bit louder).
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 03:59 AM
Ah-HAH, found the same sound!
It matches Eurasian collared-dove, if that's enough to go by.
PS: also found this newsclip from a town up the coast:
http://www.cbc.ca/pl...sort=MostRecent
It matches Eurasian collared-dove, if that's enough to go by.
PS: also found this newsclip from a town up the coast:
http://www.cbc.ca/pl...sort=MostRecent
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