Owl

[QPrints]

Hi all

First post, please be gentle

I was going to ask for an ID of an Owl, but I have never seen it, just heard it, I have created an mp3 of a couple of twoo's but I'm not sure what would be the best way to get you to hear it, I could host the mp3 but I see the rules about images so I thought I would ask before posting the mp3

I've not heard many owls, so if they all sound the same, let me know

Thanks
Dave

BTW it's only a small file, 56k

[Lance Morgan]

Hello and welcome to the WAb Forums. They do'nt all sound the same and yours is most likely a Tawny Owl.

[Rob_D]

Welcome to WAB. Can't advise on uploading an MP3.

If it is hooting - twit - twoo style, then it is probably a Tawny Owl. Little Owls do make some similar noises to Tawnies, but they are easy to tell apart. Barn Owls make terrible screeching noise, which is completely different.

IMHO - if you can learn the calls of birds; even a few, you will see and identify far more than by trying to see them first. For owls that's doubly true! Yesterday I heard about a dozen loudly singing Nightingales at Paxton Pits reserve, Cambs, but I did not see a single one. As a birdwatcher, it took me a long time to realize this, and I wish I had listened more. xeno-canto/Europe :: bird sounds from Europe is a good site. Hope that helps.

[QPrints]

Thanks for letting me know guys, it is the twit - twoo style (though i'm sure I heard that the twit was one owl, the twoo was another)

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by QPrints

Thanks for letting me know guys, it is the twit - twoo style (though i'm sure I heard that the twit was one owl, the twoo was another)

That's the 2 sexes of the Tawny Owl responding to each other.

Welcome by the way!

[QPrints]

OK thanks, so we have two Tawny owl's in the neighbourhood