Any interest in spotted owls?
I'm a student with an interest in digital audio. Currently finishing up a bioacoustic monitoring internship with the national parks service building a model to automate the detection and classification of owl calls-- specifically those of the endangered northern spotted owl.
I've been listening to these goddamn birds for 5 months now and I've gotten pretty familiar with their calls-- and discovered a few that I can't find documented anywhere.
On the off chance anyone knows owls in this thread, does this sound like a barred owl call to you? The screech is classic spotted owl, but the chuckling call isn't documented anywhere I can find. The fact that the two call are co located suggests to me they're both SPOW, but I don't know for sure. I'm a audio guy not a bird guy.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ygdAfhHZkqbonus SPOW 4 note call. Usually used to establish contact-- I hear them call back and forth with this one a lot.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s02IM5PIg7U5