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Question by Andy M Thompson: Identifying a bird call?
On holiday in the central / south of France I kept hearing a bird call and I have no idea what it was. It sounded coarse, like a crow’s craw but was less random the same 3 or 4 crawks (so hard to describe in words) in a row three or four times – sort of “crawk, craaaawk, craaawk – pause, crawk, craaaawk, craaawk pause, crawk, craaaawk, craaawk”. It sounds like it came from the ground rather than up in a tree and like it might be a bigger bird, at least as large as a crow. We heard it a lot at dusk and dawn and occasionally during the day. We were surrounded by farmland with some ponds very nearby so it could be a water bird. There was also a sound similar to a cuckoo at the same time but I’m not sure if that was the same bird or something else! I don’t expect anyone to be able to say what it was for me but if anyone could recommend good websites for looking up this sort of thing (googling, I can find great sites for the US but not for Europe) and the UK sites might not have it as it was France in summer so might be a bird that doesn’t visit the UK. I’ve never heard anything exactly like it in the UK.
I thought it Corncrake but it wasn’t – it might be something like that – all suggestions welcome!
HA HA nightmare, you’re a wag! Still a joke response is better than no response – I suppose….
I did try to creep up on it but the thing always shut up when I got close and in the summer there’s so much foliage for birds to hide in it’s hard to get a look let alone a photo.
and it’d be youre lame not yourlame…
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Answer by Lori Dixon
Too bad you didn’t get a look at it, sure would be a lot easier to find what it was in a book of birds – wonder if you could google that and see if they describe their sounds? Got to be something like that – you’d think anyway! Good luck finding it, I would kind of like to know myself.
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