 |  | ||||||||
 | |||||||||
Tawny Owl calls and vocalizations (page 3) Longer mp3 samples (in prep) | |||||||||
Wails, squeals and moans -- both sexes | |||||||||
Third part of clip 1 in full (1.34 Mb)
| Male and female Tawny Owls sometimes come out with mournful-sounding wails and moans. As yet I have little idea what these mean. In the case of the female we seem to have another "regular" call -- i.e. one that is consistently made in the same way. This is shown in the third clip below. Clip 1 has three sets of wailings made by a male (first part), a female and then a male (2nd part) and a female (3rd part). For the first part I'm indebted to Allan Haighton; in the last two parts you hear one of our own local pairs. An obvious difference between the sexes is the pitch. Each sex makes wailing noises in much the same pitch as its main call -- respectively the hoot and the kewick. The female's call made after the Jackdaws includes sounds that are clearly related to her kewick. Clip 2 is the third part of Clip 1 in full. It's just before dawn, and Jackdaws call nearby. The female launches into a "wail" call. Later in the clip her mate can be heard too. I don't think the Jackdaws had anything to do with the female's calls as she quite often makes the same call during the night. My female tawny does not make this type of call, so possibly it's one that's made by a paired female. Clip 3: A regular female call? Here are three examples of our local female making the "wail" call on 5 August 2006 (from clip 2), and on 14 August and 10 September 2007. Apologies for the quality -- my clips had to be amplified and filtered. They are from recordings made by leaving equipment running through the night. It's pure chance if the owls perform close by. | ||||||||
 | |||||||||
That's it for the time being. More coming when there's time! Nov 2007: I've just seen this,an excellent and comprehensive collection of Barred Owl calls, very much along the lines of these Tawny Owl call pages. Recently made and put up, they're here: Barred Owl vocalizations. Recorded by Bob Pearson in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington. It seems the Barred Owls even do the branch crashing that tawnies do (that'll be put up here some time in examples of pair interaction at the nest), though vocally they sound as different as bassoon and flute. | |||||||||
powered by owls | |||||||||
 | | | | | | | | | |
