Sound Gallery - Ptarmigan

Ptarmigan in Denali National Park and Preserve

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• Ptarmigan

  
  

  Sound recording of a ptarmigan, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

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  The odd squeaking, clucking sounds of a ptarmigan call.

Spectrogram of a Ptarmigan. 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 ptarmigans' unique, rapid, full-frequency clucks and complex garbles.

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