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  1. TheBlackGrouse

    Harrier and wheatear (?) -- Geiseltalsee, Germany

    That's what I hear too but at the end there is a barely audible faster phrase, more scratchy, that part doesn't sound like a typical Reed Bunting.
  2. TheBlackGrouse

    Harrier and wheatear (?) -- Geiseltalsee, Germany

    The very faint and faster scratchy part at the end might be of a Wheatear. The Chats have more melody in their songs. Especially the Stonechat is not hesitating, it sings fluently. The noise of the wind is terrible, if someone says it starts with a Reed Bunting and ends with a Whitethroat, he...
  3. TheBlackGrouse

    Harrier and wheatear (?) -- Geiseltalsee, Germany

    Maybe it's my speaker but I hear some slow hesitant phrases, like a Reed Bunting does. However, with this heavy wind on the recording, the timbre may fit a Northern Wheatear too. It has a variable song, from fast and scratchy like a Whitethroat to melodic like a Bluethroat. The recording is from...
  4. TheBlackGrouse

    Harrier and wheatear (?) -- Geiseltalsee, Germany

    The recording sounds more like a Reed Bunting. Where was the sound coming from? Northern Wheatears rest on open ground (sand, grass, stones), they sit on a rock or a fallen tree, sometimes in a small bush. Reed Buntings are found in reed beds, sometimes in small bushes too. They may sing while...
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