Sound Gallery - Common Poorwill

A common poorwill surveys its surroundings from its ground nest.

© Ken-ichi Ueda, Flickr Creative Commons

• Common Poorwill

  
  

  Sound recording of common poorwill, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

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  The high-pitched call of a common poorwill that resembling a repeated whistling "poorwillip" sound.

Spectrogram of Common Poorwill. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram visualizes the bird's repetitive, lilting "poorwillip"

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