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Index of Subjects Hi, Steve. The owl that has a call similar to what you describe, both in pattern and being basically all on one note, is the Great Horned Owl. The Barred Owl's calls, even its one-syllable "Whooooo", vary a great deal in pitch. To compare the Great Horned's call to the Mourning Dove's, you could go to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website, where it's easy to play the calls of a bird that interests you. It is at www.birds.cornell.edu Cheers, Susann Myers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Shaw" <srshaw@DAL.CA> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:25 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Which owl? >A couple of mornings ago I was rudely wakened around 6:20 AM (already light > then) by a loud 4-note motif coming from a tree somewhere outside, from > what > sounded like an owl. Over a few minutes, the call was repeated several > times, > Huh-hoo, hoo-hoo. The last 3 syllables were delivered at a similar low > pitch, > while the first 'Huh' was pitched a little higher, but not by much. The > time > gap between 2 & 3 was longer than that between either 1 & 2, or 3 & 4. > Couldn't > see the caller at all. > > Looking in Sibley, this seems to be a best match to the call of a Barred > Owl. > Does that sound like a correct guess? Are they common? -- don't seem to > hear > many owls here. > Steve > Halifax > >
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