Snow Goose 76kB MP3 file
Chen caerulescens
"A loud resonant nasal whouck or houck ..."
(Peterson)
Snow Goose 72kB MP3 file
La Fille du Régiment 385kB MP3 file
(One Snow Goose in a flock of about fifty Canadians, alarmed and
finally put to flight
by an intruder. The 4 distinctly sharper-pitched
honks are the Snow Goose.)
Long Island, February 2013.
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Canada Goose 21kB Branta canadiensis ``A sonorous honk.'' (Chapman) Long Island, July 1997.
Two Geese overhead 133kB
Two Geese on a pond 83kB |
Brant 59kB MP3 file
Branta bernicla
"A throaty cr-r-r-unk or kurr-onk, krrr-onk" (Peterson)
A flock of brants foraging 64kB MP3 file
Long Island, April 2004.
Mallard 131kB
Anas platyrynchos
Mallard 274kB
Woodbridge, Connecticut, March 2002.
Female Mallard Soliloquy, 220kB mp3
Long Island, March 2013.
Gadwall 47kb mp3
Anas strepera
"A quack like that of the Mallard but shriller and more
often repeated" (Chapman)
Long Island, March 2013.
American Wigeon (Baldpate)
Anas americana (17kb mp3)
"Male a distinctive airy whistle of two or three syllables wi-WIW-weew or Wiwhew."
(Sibley)
Flock of Wigeons
(83kb mp3)
Two or three wigeons (73kb mp3)
Same at half speed (145kb mp3)
Low quacks may be female wigeons, but mallards were present.
sonogram made from half-speed record. Original range 0-7350Hz.
Long Island, October 2012.
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Long-tailed Duck
(formerly "Oldsquaw") 40kB MP3 Clangula hyemalis "Talkative; a musical ow-owdle-ow or owl-omelet" (Peterson) "Very vocal ... upup OW OweLEP" (Sibley) Long-tailed Duck 108kB MP3 Long Island, March 2007.
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