Motacilla cinerea - Grey wagtail - Ballerina gialla

Motacilla cinerea

RECORDING 1
DATE/TIME: 8/november/2007 (8 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: One bird is flying over a marsh. - POSITION: Scarlino marsh, LAT.N 42°54'/LONG.E 10° 47'- ALTITUDE: 0 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: flight / contact call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - COMMENT: Traffic noise has been deleted from the spectrogram and filtered out in the audio sample. - MIC: (P).

RECORDING 2
DATE/TIME: 21/december/2007 (4.15 p.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird is flushed by myself from a small ditch. - POSITION: Poderone near Magliano in Toscana, LAT.N 42°36'/LONG.E 11°17'- ALTITUDE: +130 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: flight / alarm call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - MIC: (P).

RECORDING 3
DATE/TIME: 17/february/2008 (12 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: One Grey wagtail is perched on a bird table near my house. It flies off and calls. - POSITION: Poderone near Magliano in Toscana, LAT.N 42°36'/LONG.E 11°17'- ALTITUDE: +130 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: flight / alarm call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - COMMENT: the bird calls in flight after it has been flushed by me. The fourth call is heavily saturated (see spectrograms), but not distorted. - MIC: (P).


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