RECORDING 1
DATE/TIME: 10/april/2004 (10 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird is perched (not seen) in a thick pine copse with bushes. - POSITION: Near Perotto Lake (an artificial reservoir with a barrage), LAT.N 42°37'/LONG.E 11°15' - ALTITUDE: +70 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: typical contact call delivered when perched - SEX/AGE: adult male? - COMMENT: This call is strongly similar to that of Willow warbler, but it is less bitonal. - MIC: (A)

recording 1 (191 KB) - * - spectrogram 1 (14 KB)

RECORDING 2
DATE/TIME: 10/april/2004 (11 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: Probably the same bird as above is cached into the same pine copse. - POSITION: Near Perotto Lake (an artificial reservoir with a barrage), LAT.N 42°37'/LONG.E 11°15' - ALTITUDE: +70 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: Full song. - SEX/AGE: adult male - MIC: (A)

recording 2 (188 KB) - * - spectrogram 2 (18 KB)

RECORDING 3
DATE/TIME: 14/february/2007 (7 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird is singing while it is hopping and flying between the branches of a big oak. Probably it is looking for food. - POSITION: Poderone near Magliano in Toscana, LAT. N. 42 36' /LONG. E 11 16' - ALTITUDE: +120 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: Full song. - SEX/AGE: adult male - COMMENT: Background sounds: Robin and Sardinian warbler calls. - MIC: (A)

recording 3 (392 KB) - * - spectrogram 3 (60 KB)

RECORDING 4
DATE/TIME: 3/august/2007 (9 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird - not seen - is perched in a thick mixed wood (mainly oak). - POSITION: Mount Penna near Selvena, LAT. N. 42°46' /LONG. E 11°39' - ALTITUDE: +800 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: Typical contact call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - COMMENT: Background sounds: wind and tree leaves. - MIC: (P)

recording 4 (360 KB) - * - spectrogram 4 (48 KB)

RECORDING 5
DATE/TIME: 17/september/2008 (7 p.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird - not seen - is cached in a small copse with shrubs and deciduous trees. - POSITION: Near Mount Labbro, LAT. N. 42 48'/ LONG. E 11 33' - ALTITUDE: +900 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: A bitonal variant of the contact-alarm call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - COMMENT: This kind of variant call is reported also by Bergmann & Helb (Die stimmen der Vogel Europas) and by Cramp (The Birds of the Western Palearctic - Vol. 6). Background sounds: sheep bells. - MIC: (P)

recording 5 (220 KB) - * - spectrogram 5 (32 KB)

RECORDING 6
DATE/TIME: 8/february/2009 (4 p.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird - not seen - is cached in a deciduous wood (mainly oak). - POSITION: Poderone near Magliano in Toscana, LAT. N. 42 36' /LONG. E 11 16' - ALTITUDE: +120 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: contact call. - SEX/AGE: unknown - COMMENT: This bird has a call more similar to that of Willow warbler (check Recording 2 for that species), but see the different harmonic structure and the less prominent bitonal modulation. - MIC: (P)

recording 6 (488 KB) - * - spectrogram 6 (40 KB)

RECORDING 7
DATE/TIME: 14/april/2008 (7 a.m.) - IDENTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOUR: The bird - not seen - is cached in a mixed wood. - POSITION: Near Perotto Lake (an artificial reservoir with a barrage), LAT.N 42°37'/LONG.E 11°15' - ALTITUDE: +70 m. - VOCALIZATION TYPE: full song. - SEX/AGE: adult male - COMMENT: Note the high variability of the syllable structure. - MIC: (P)

recording 7 (468 KB) - * - spectrogram 7 (48 KB)