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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Rotarran on May 24, 2014, 08:20:27 PM

Title: Curious sounds...type of clucking almost
Post by: Rotarran on May 24, 2014, 08:20:27 PM

Took a walk today in German Mills park and I heard some sort of almost clucking-type sounds emanating from the nearby woods.  It even sounded a bit Bittern-like...but obviously it couldn't have been that.  Wasn't sure what it was at first until I thought it might have been Yellow-Billed Cuckoos.  There's a recording on my phone ap that matches part of it...but would they be repeating only one type of sound without the initial build-up or intro?  I've never heard YB Cuckoos so I don't have a lot to go on.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Curious sounds...type of clucking almost
Post by: Reuven_M on May 24, 2014, 08:33:37 PM

Cuckoos can do all sorts of sounds including what you describe. That's possibly what it was

Title: Re: Curious sounds...type of clucking almost
Post by: Rotarran on May 24, 2014, 08:49:25 PM

Thanks Reuven.  I may pay another visit, maybe I'll catch a glimpse of them.  The only problem is that the sounds came from a steep uphill and a fence was in my way too...just not very conducive to good birding.

Title: Re: Curious sounds...type of clucking almost
Post by: GStuart on May 25, 2014, 04:39:42 PM

Another possibility is Eastern Chipmunk.

Title: Re: Curious sounds...type of clucking almost
Post by: Rotarran on May 25, 2014, 07:25:09 PM

Thanks...those I did see but did not know that they make sounds like that.