CORN BUNTING WITH YELLOWHAMER SONG
August 3rd, 2008 geschrieben von PatrickOn Spring 2008 the ornithologist Reinhold Brennecke (Haldensleben, near Magdeburg, Mid-Germany)
told me about a Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra he watched for 3 years, which singing like
a Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella. At the Forum of “Verein Sächsischer Ornithlogen” (VSO) i read
a report about the same topic. On early summer i visit the described place and had the luck to see and
hear the bird. Actually it was a Corn Bunting (on Dick Forsman´s homepage I read 1 month ago about nearly
grey Yellowhammers!)
While our SINGWARTE camp in June 2008 Marcus Held and I went out to record the singer.
The bird sang 2 different kinds of songs. A nearly equal Yellowhammer and a mixed
Yellowhammer/Corn Bunting song. The mixed one starts with Corn Bunting like short single sounds,
followed by a Yellowhammer part (typical first part double sounds in Yellowhammer song). The song
of our Corn Bunting ends with the typical short Corn Bunting sounds.
Corn Bunting, typical song, 2008:
Corn Bunting, atypical song – mixed one, June 29th, 2008:
Corn Bunting, atypical song – nearly equal to Yellowhammer, June 29th, 2008:
Yellowhammer, typical song, 2008:
Tags: bioacoustics, birds, research
January 19th, 2009 at 21:32
Ich konnte in Hessen 2004 eine Grauammer verhören und Sichten, die wie eine Goldammer gesungen hat. Offenbar wird gibt es dies häufiger bei der Grauammer.