Sound Gallery - Northern Flicker

Northern Flickers

Photo by David Hypes

• Northern Flicker

  
  

  Sound recording of the Northern Flicker, Yosemite National Park, California.

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  Audio Transcript

  The rhythmic thrilling of a northern flicker's call.

Spectrogram of Northern Flicker. 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 flicker's series of rapid, high-pitched cheeps

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