Sound Gallery - Western Gull

Western Gull pair on Alcatraz Island

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• Western Gull

  
  

  Sound recording of the Western gull, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California.
  Audio Transcript

  Loud, screeching sounds of western gull calls.

Spectrogram of Western gull. 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 gull's series of loud screeching calls

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