Couch's Kingbird, AL Co.

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Mikey Lutmerding

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Nov 11, 2014, 10:23:30 PM11/11/14
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Hi everyone,

First of all a huge thanks go to Kathy Calvert and Mike Welch for this amazing find!!  Jo Anna, Wren and I arrived after the bird had gone missing for a little while, after searching for a bit with Tom Feild, J.B Churchill, and others on the scene, we relocated it around the house east of the pond.  Shortly after everyone  gathered to see it, a Merlin zipped in setting the kingbird off into a bout of vocalizations, it mostly gave "pip" notes but also gave a full "kip reeeer".  Tom and I both agreed it sounded good for Couch's, unfortunately I had left my phone on the car and no other recorders were on at the time.  Tom and I spent the next hour following it trying to obtain recordings; we were successful in grabbing a couple of diagnostic "pip" notes after the bird started calling in response to being chased by a Northern Mockingbird and American Kestrel. Recordings and spectrograms can be seen/heard here-

https://soundcloud.com/mikeycerw/coki-al-2014-11-11-1
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