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Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby telboy » Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:50 pm

Is it possible to post a sound on the forum :?:

Just recently here in the campo we've had what can only be described as hoot/bassy single note whistle, googled & youtubed owls etc and listened to their evening calls but they don't sound anything like it.It has been happening most evenings and more or less continues right through until daybreak. It's just a single note lasting about two seconds with a slight pitch variation.

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby scotty » Wed Apr 20, 2016 7:59 pm

It could be the Andalucian Tinitus bird :lol:

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby katy » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:17 pm

We used to get one at certain times of the year. Was told it was a nightingale or a night jar. I liked hearing it.

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby Wicksey » Thu Apr 21, 2016 1:18 pm

Nightingales have a very melodic and tuneful song, and there are two types of nightjars around here. One has a churring sound (like a big cat purring!) and the other has a distinctive chuka chuka chuka sound .... almost like someone hitting metal.

I think it is an owl too. We have it here .... we call it the 'hoo bird' as it just makes a single, deep hoooo sound as you describe tellboy. We have Little Owls that sit on our electricity line but listening to their call on Youtube, it seems a higher pitch to what we hear at night. You can tell that I suffer from insomnia!

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby olive » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:32 pm

I would say nightjar.

We have got a nightingale this year. Thankfully it has been absent for the last two. Not sure I would call it tuneful or melodic. Just a racket. There is a four hour you tube recording. Leave that playing while you are trying to sleep!

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby Wicksey » Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:28 am

If you a bit of a birdwatcher like me, then the BBC's Tweet of the day series is quite good. Still can't find the 'hoo bird' but here is the Nightjar that churrs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b020tnrx

and the rednecked nightjar that goes chuka chuka
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sxv25

That is the one we hear most as it sits on a fence post nearby or on our pylon and calls for hours! We've had to go out and shoo it away some nights.

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby patricia » Mon May 02, 2016 3:16 pm

Ask in the facebook wild life Axerquia birds and wildlife. You can join that and ask what the members, it is a good group to belong to because they posta lot about wildlife in Andalucia and there are some very very knowledgeable people on there and someone will know what it is for sure.
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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby knowal » Mon May 02, 2016 9:55 pm

So what do you think Telboy, or have you abandoned us?
Listen to scops owl

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby Wicksey » Tue May 03, 2016 9:25 am

If tellboy's bird is the same as ours, then the Scops is too high pitched. Ours sounds a bit like a tawny owl, a deeper note but just a single 'hooo' at regular intervals.

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby telboy » Wed May 04, 2016 7:56 am

Sorry for not getting back sooner :!: - Thanks for the replies :thumbup:

It's definitely a Scop Owl, listened to chrissyboy and White Horse links, our bird sound is really loud and slightly lower pitched as Wicksey suggested - probably amplified by our valley location.

Nice-one Scotty :lol:

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby scotty » Wed May 04, 2016 9:58 pm

Well that's Gas ! I heard the same owl two weeks ago in the middle of the nit as I pointed "Percy at the porcelain" . . . . . . Good to find out what it's called.

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby Wicksey » Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:18 pm

Wicksey wrote: I think it is an owl too. We have it here .... we call it the 'hoo bird' as it just makes a single, deep hoooo sound as you describe tellboy. We have Little Owls that sit on our electricity line but listening to their call on Youtube, it seems a higher pitch to what we hear at night.
It's taken me all this time to finally identify our 'hoo bird'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUf0I--lTF0

It was sitting on the electricity line at dusk last night and was clearly a long eared owl. Glad to have solved that mystery at last :lol:

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Re: Strange Nighttime Bird/Animal Sound

Postby Manchesteral » Fri Dec 27, 2019 6:10 pm

I've been listening to that bird for 25 years but I'm getting divorced now :-)


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