Chough (was - bird call, donegal)

Eyeball Tickler · 14-10-2012 6:50pm #1

Hi everyone, I made this recording of a bird call while walking along the cliffs north of Glencolmcille last week. From looking at the silhouette of the bird against the sky above me, at first I thought it was a raven. But I've never heard a raven make a call like this before, it's very high-pitched. The bird seemed to be diving then gliding from a height down towards the cliffs below, and I think there were two of them in the vicinity making the same type of call.

Sorry for the poor audio quality, just captured it on my cheapo phone, but if anyone could shed any light, I'd love to know what it is.

http://soundcloud.com/lennyantonelli/bird-call-donegal

whyulittle · 14-10-2012 6:53pm

Link doesn't work. Peregrine maybe?

Eyeball Tickler · 14-10-2012 7:03pm

Whoops sorry, link should be working again now, I had it set to private.

Peregrine is a possibility, though it sounds a little different to the peregrine calls I've listened to online. The time the first thing that came to mind was that it sounded like some sort of science fiction laser gun. The bird also looked quite black against the sky, but it was around noon on a very bright day, so it was hard to pick out any color detail.