Corey Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Today in southern Nevada. Normally a yellow throated vireo would be crazy here but two days ago one was photographed by many experts here. Today heard what I thought was a vireo calling, started Merlin and it was very sure the calling bird was a yellow throated, which seemed a very strange coincidence. I increased the volume and re-ran it through Merlin, same result. Expected vireos here are Bell's, Cassin's, plumbeous. Thanks louder2.wav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Sounds like a YTVI to me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 This sounds like a Wren to me. I've never heard a Vireo make that many raspy calls at once. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 1 hour ago, Avery said: This sounds like a Wren to me. I've never heard a Vireo make that many raspy calls at once. I have. A WEVI called for about 2.5 minutes while I was birding 45 minutes ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 3 hours ago, Corey said: Today heard what I thought was a vireo calling, started Merlin and it was very sure the calling bird was a yellow throated, which seemed a very strange coincidence. I increased the volume and re-ran it through Merlin, same result. louder2.wav FWIW, I ran it through Merlin (located in TN, where YTVI are breeders here) and it only popped up as a Carolina Wren. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 I guess I could see it as a wren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted May 10 Author Share Posted May 10 At the time, Merlin ID'ed as yellow throated vireo. Later I increased the volume and ran it through Merlin again, same result. Carolina wren would be even crazier here. 🙂 As I mentioned, a yellow throated vireo WAS photographed and recorded here by several top people two days prior. It seemed quite an incredible coincidence. Also, I noticed on the Merlin app, under sounds for this bird, there are 4 calls, the second one sounds just like what I recorded, many fast raspy calls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Do not trust Merlin for things like this, rarities, similar sounding species, etc. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 3 hours ago, Corey said: At the time, Merlin ID'ed as yellow throated vireo. Later I increased the volume and ran it through Merlin again, same result. Carolina wren would be even crazier here. 🙂 As I mentioned, a yellow throated vireo WAS photographed and recorded here by several top people two days prior. It seemed quite an incredible coincidence. Also, I noticed on the Merlin app, under sounds for this bird, there are 4 calls, the second one sounds just like what I recorded, many fast raspy calls. Could you upload the recording to ebird as bird sp. so that we could compare your recording with other similar species? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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