1y ago

Help identifying a birdsong

audio_2024_04_07_20_43_13.mp3

I heard this bird today that I didn't recognise. There's probably a birding lemmy but I thought I'd try here first. The audio quality sucks but its a continuous warble that decreases in pitch over about 2 seconds.

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Eurasian blue tit?
- A swallow straining under the weight of a coconut.
  
  Perhaps if he grips it by the husk?
Check out the Merlin bird ID app.
- I love Merlin! I do go back and delete my old recordings though, they took a lot of space on my phone. Especially because I'm sitting there waiting for the bird to do it again... It's pretty good at ignoring other noises like traffic and dogs.
I checked it with whoBIRD (FOSS app that identifies bird calls), I disabled location and date and played the sound from my PC. Pretty confident it's a Eurasian blue tit.
- Great, thanks for the app suggestion and the effort!
I think it's a Blue Tit as well. Here's some samples from xeno-canto which sound similar to your clip:
https://xeno-canto.org/881639
https://xeno-canto.org/879930
- Thanks! It's strange, we have loads of blue tits in our garden and I swear I've not heard it before.

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