Austin TX USA recording (1 Viewer)

[Mr_K]

Can you listen and tell me what you think? Thanks.

 

[Butty]

White-breasted nuthatch?

 

[Mr_K]

White-breasted nuthatch?

No. I don't think so. I went to the Audubon site for the nuthatch. At White-breasted Nuthatch Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I think the nuthatch is lower pitched.
Thanks though.

 

[Mr_K]

If it helps, the bird was recorded in a group of trees in the late afternoon by a resevoir. The song is not one I seem to remember here in Austin.

 

[Butty]

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) :: xeno-canto

xeno-canto.org

Check the ones labelled 'song'.

 

[connorco]

I agree with Butty, it's a White-breasted Nuthatch song.

 

[Mr_K]

Hello all.

Let me try a second recording. Only 7 seconds but maybe a bit clearer.

Austin is a the edge of the range of the WBN. Could it be something else? Thanks.

 

[Butty]

Sounds just the same as your first recording. Bear in mind when comparing your recording with others that there are a whole big bag of reasons which will make individual recordings of a given species sound different from one another - even more so perhaps than is the case with comparing photographs.

Austin is a the edge of the range of the WBN

White-breasted Nuthatch Sightings Map, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A common feeder bird with clean black, gray, and white markings, White-breasted Nuthatches are active, agile little birds with an appetite for insects and large, meaty seeds. They get their common name from their habit of jamming large nuts and acorns into tree bark, then whacking them with...

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