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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: cabz on May 22, 2009, 10:08:17 AM

Title: Bird call/song in the woods
Post by: cabz on May 22, 2009, 10:08:17 AM

I keep hearing a bird in the woods, not quite swampy, but wetter woods.  The sound is loud, like a "wop, wop, wop" or "whip,whip,whip", descending.  Possible call note of veery?  Forgot to ask at the Visitor Centres at Pelee or Rondeau when I was there last week.  Have heard it west of Erin and also down at Rondeau.  Had a great week, 3 new ones for the life list, Tennesse Warbler, gray phase of the Orange crown and Summer Tanger and my husband got to see and took some great, abit of a distance away of the Prothonetory (sp?) at Rondeau on the Tulip Trail.

Thanks in advance for any help.   Good birding

Cabz

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Post by: dmuirhead on May 22, 2009, 05:29:33 PM

may be a great-creasted flycatcher ....

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Post by: dmuirhead on May 22, 2009, 05:32:13 PM

meant great crested flyctacher

Title: Thanks for your suggestion dmuirhead
Post by: cabz on May 27, 2009, 07:39:49 AM

but sorry, not it is not a Great Crested Flycatcher.  I do know their song.  The first note is very loud, a definite "whip" like sound.  Hopefully I will hear it again and get a more accurate description.

Good birding everyone.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on May 27, 2009, 10:07:15 PM

How about a Black-billed Cuckoo?  "Whip" isn't the mnemonic I would use, but the general pattern, and the difficulty in locating the singer would fit.

This page (http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/307/overview/Black-billed_Cuckoo.aspx) has a typical song.

BB