Bird call...? (1 Viewer)

[Just smiffy]

whilst traveling down Croatia I have been hearing what I think is a bird, it starts at dusk and continues through the dark evening. The only sound that I can say it sounds like is a submarine ping ....

Any ideas...?

@DBK perhaps...?

 

[Silver-Fox]

Yep it’s the lesser greater ping warbler.

Hope that clears that up

 

[DBK]

Does it sound like this?

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[icantremember]

Could be a Scops Owl

 

[Mikeco]

Russian submarine, they get everywhere.

 

[Just smiffy]

Does it sound like this?

That’s the one ....

So quick.... I can google it now...

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[Just smiffy]

Thanks @DBK ...

 

[Just smiffy]

For those that like to put a face to a voice....

 

[Fletton]

Had one at dusk in Sth Yorks... that was doing my head in... insofar as not heard before....

Could see it “hovering” but couldn’t identify.. too dark (dusk wise)

Finally sussed it out to be a nightjar...

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[jumartoo]

That's the one kept us awake last night until it went to sleep!

 

[pappajohn]

We have a bovine dumper bird living in a tree above the carport.
It's called a bovine dumper bird as the amount of shit dumped on a daily basis is around the same as a cow.
I had to built the car port to prevent my car paintwork getting acid etched.
Fortunately for the bird it's only active at night so I can't see it in my gun sights.

 

[joka250]

Well what a speedy and brilliant response from @DBK and right on target. We have been in Croatia for several weeks and have heard this bird in every place we stopped from Istria to Dalmatia and on the islands. Janet said it was an owl but I said no. Moved from Losinj to Cres yesterday and no Scops owl last night., quite missed it.

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[icantremember]

Funny true story ... One windy night in south of France, we were pitched on a site next to some friends (John + Val) .. next morning, John was complaining he couldn't sleep due to a nearby toilet block door swinging and creaking in the breeze... So he had ventured out in the early hours, wearing very little, in order to jam the door shut ... this still didn't stop the noise ... it had of course been the sound of a Scops Owl all along!


Well I thought it was funny

 

[movan]

I love owls ...

DBK was brilliant at identifying the one that kept me awxke all night which, at first, I thought was some idiot pushing a wheelbarrow around the site with a squeaky wheel. :/

 

[joka250]

Strangely since this stream started I haven't heard a Scops owl. I know we moved from 1 island to another, Losinj to Cres, but they are joined by a bridge of 50 metres length or less. Lay awake last night waiting for him/her to start. Had to keep playing @DBK link to lull myself to sleep.

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[autorouter]

Strangely since this stream started I haven't heard a Scops owl. I know we moved from 1 island to another, Losinj to Cres, but they are joined by a bridge of 50 metres length or less. Lay awake last night waiting for him/her to start. Had to keep playing @DBK link to lull myself to sleep.

Just near that bridge is the birthplace of the geologist Mohorovic, who discovered the boundary between the earth's crust and the mantle beneath it. This boundary is called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, commonly known as the Moho in geological circles.
Just thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't quite fallen asleep...

 

[Speve]

Scops owls are ver small and very hard to spot but I love their sound it’s called twinking.

 

[jumartoo]

Ours is at it again!!!

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[movan]

Scops owls are ver small and very hard to spot but I love their sound it’s called twinking.

@Anthea M ..... don't you just love that word... x

 

[joka250]

Just near that bridge is the birthplace of the geologist Mohorovic, who discovered the boundary between the earth's crust and the mantle beneath it. This boundary is called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, commonly known as the Moho in geological circles.
Just thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't quite fallen asleep...

I thought the research I do as we move around was pretty good but your knowledge shames me. I must stay awake even more.
I have now looked him up. Interesting man, has a crater on the moon named after him.