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Discussion => Behaviour => Topic started by: Ally on June 15, 2017, 12:43:39 PM

Title: Northern Flicker started to cry a lot
Post by: Ally on June 15, 2017, 12:43:39 PM

Hi everyone. I have two Northern Flickers hang out on the dead tree beside my place a lot.
They were usually very quiet. The day before yesterday, one of them started to cry lot. I recorded it, can anybody help explaining why? Thanks,
https://youtu.be/wCcXD0_ncc4 (https://youtu.be/wCcXD0_ncc4)  
Ally

Title: Re: Northern Flicker started to cry a lot
Post by: Kris Ito on June 16, 2017, 07:15:24 AM

This sounds like one of the Northern Flicker's normal call sounds. I don't think you need to worry that they are "crying" - just communicating! Here is a link to some sample sounds from Cornell: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/sounds

Title: Re: Northern Flicker started to cry a lot
Post by: Ally on June 16, 2017, 08:02:22 AM

Thank you. I was surprised, because for many days, they were so quiet.