Barking Owl

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dragonfly47
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Barking Owl

Hi everyone; thanks for checking out the audio I've left on my new blog post here.  Hope you can help.

Regards, Carole

jfiess78
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Hi Carole, someone with more experience maybe able to help. It sounds a little like a flying fox (bat) to me?? Not 100% on that though.

Cheers, Jackie.

dragonfly47
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thanks Jackie for your input; I'm open to all suggestions!

Araminta
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I have heard a very similar sound before, it wasn't a very pleasant experience though. The neighbour's cat had caught a King Parrot. The Parrot struggled , flapping it's wings, trying to get out jaws of the cat. I will not forget that sound, the bird screamed for a long time, I can still hear it in my mind. I think that's what happened here.

M-L

dragonfly47
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Araminta thankyou; yes it is quite a stressful sound I agree...oh goodness I hope not though.  I had wondered had an owl caught prey that was sounding like that. 

timmo
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Hi Carole,

I would be pretty sure that's not a barking owl going on for that long.

The only other thing that came to mind was a Channel Billed Cuckoo, though I wouldn't expect to hear them at night.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

Windhover
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Definitely not an owl of any kind. I am not too familiar with fox calls, even though I have a heap of them, and I cannot recall hearing anything like that at all. I will forward the link to a couple of scientist mates. See what they come back with...

dragonfly47
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thankyou both timmo and Windhover; I appreciate your feedback too; we need to find an answer here; the plot thickens!

GregL
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I hear that noise quite often, I'm pretty sure it's a fox. For years I thought it was a barking owl also, but if you research the difference you will hear it's not the owl. When a fox shrieks it really sounds like something in distress.

dragonfly47
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thanks Greg.  I tried researching for the 'screaming woman' audio for the barking owl but couldn't locate any.  Have you a link?  I'd be really interested.  I consider that this doesn't especially sound like 'a screaming woman' but rather something in distress.  I started to wonder if an owl had picked up something that was calling out like that.  Maybe I should start searching for fox sounds instead.  Thanks for your input, hopefully there will be others with theirs too.  Much appreciated to all.

GregL
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This is a recording of the barking owl scream.

http://www.owlpages.com/sounds/Ninox-connivens-4.mp3

Your recording really is a fox, as I said I hear it quite often.

dragonfly47
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thank-you Greg; looks like ...a fox it is, although a rather unfamiliar fox sound to the norm... gosh it really is pitiful isn't it?!  I'd almost think it is an animal that a fox has caught.  Perhaps this is the wrong forum to continue this questioning now, since it is a 'bird forum' I don't want to  ruffle feathers here.  I really appreciate the input.

Windhover
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My friend also suggested European Red Fox.

dragonfly47
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thanks Windhover; am trying to locate similar audios....

Araminta
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Akos, I'm not sure about the fox, we have lots of foxes in the bush behind us, their mating call (scream?) sounds different to me. I'd still go for a bird beeing killed , the killer might be a fox? So it could be two sounds mixed into one? Have a listen, you might find there are two animals?

M-L

GregL
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When my wife hears the fox screaming she gets a bit distressed, it sounds so much like an animal being killed. Even hearing the recording got her going. After hearing it many times it no longer bothers me, except when people on the internet refuse to believe it is a fox.

Windhover
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Just do a google search for fox calls Dragonfly!

dragonfly47
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I've found on this u-tube a titled section for 'ritual fight between two vixens' ----------- it sounds most similar to my own, so it seems we've quantified the answer now.  Thanks to each of you who put in your pennies worth!

hawkeye.69
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That sounds like fox predation on some bird. The original sound is a creature in distress and the fox call is unmistakeable, maybe a pair of foxes, one hunting, the other making a 'success call'. I have heard this in the Adelaide Hills at night and it can be an upsetting combination of sounds.

dragonfly47
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thanks Hawkeye 69 for your comment on this audio.  It is a haunting vocal and certainly sounded like something in distress; appreciate your feedback.

Soozie
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We have barking owls around our property and they do not sound like that, even when they score a prey they sound like very happy but eerie dogs. Your onre sounds like female, vixens, fox on heat.

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