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  • What bird sounds like a "jungle bird"?

    From Leon Fisk@21:1/5 to super70s@super70s.invalid on Sun Mar 21 14:13:01 2021
    On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:54:04 -0500
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    I hear a bird off in the woods sometimes (never close to my house) that >sounds like a bird you might hear in an African jungle movie. Short
    staccato calls that sound the same in quick succession, about 8 of them.
    It's probably a pretty common bird I just don't know what it is.

    Just a WAG... Try listening to the Pileated Woodpecker:

    https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/overview

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    Leon Fisk
    Grand Rapids MI

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 12:54:04 2021
    I hear a bird off in the woods sometimes (never close to my house) that
    sounds like a bird you might hear in an African jungle movie. Short
    staccato calls that sound the same in quick succession, about 8 of them.
    It's probably a pretty common bird I just don't know what it is.

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  • From Savageduck@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 12:29:33 2021
    On Mar 21, 2021, super70s wrote
    (in article<super70s-BBF364.12540421032021@reader02.eternal-september.org>):

    I hear a bird off in the woods sometimes (never close to my house) that sounds like a bird you might hear in an African jungle movie. Short
    staccato calls that sound the same in quick succession, about 8 of them.
    It's probably a pretty common bird I just don't know what it is.

    First where do you live? North America, West, or East Coast, South, North East, NorthWest, MidWest, Rockies, EU, UK...

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    Savageduck

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to Leon Fisk on Sun Mar 21 19:21:35 2021
    In article <s382bd$38v$2@dont-email.me>,
    Leon Fisk <lfiskgr@gmail.invalid> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:54:04 -0500
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    I hear a bird off in the woods sometimes (never close to my house) that >sounds like a bird you might hear in an African jungle movie. Short >staccato calls that sound the same in quick succession, about 8 of them. >It's probably a pretty common bird I just don't know what it is.

    Just a WAG... Try listening to the Pileated Woodpecker:

    https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/overview

    I think that's it, thanks. What I hear sounds most like No. 3 on the
    sounds page. It makes sense because I knew they were real shy and I
    rarely see them near the house, it's always a treat when I see one.
    Wonder if they have those in Africa too, lol.

    BTW I'm in TN.

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  • From Leon Fisk@21:1/5 to super70s@super70s.invalid on Mon Mar 22 13:30:46 2021
    On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:21:35 -0500
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

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    I think that's it, thanks. What I hear sounds most like No. 3 on the
    sounds page. It makes sense because I knew they were real shy and I
    rarely see them near the house, it's always a treat when I see one.
    Wonder if they have those in Africa too, lol.

    You may be thinking of the Kookaburra Bird. Seems to have been
    popular in old films for that night time jungle sound :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra#Film

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    Leon Fisk
    Grand Rapids MI

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