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[quote=Russ;117352]Living here in Abruzzo, we have a real diverse variety of birds and listening to their songs in the morning is heavenly.

Therer is one that stands out and is so persistent and annoying. I feel sure it is some variety of thrush.

Does anyone else recognise this distinctive bird?

Russ

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I'm sure I know him.... his brother lives in the trees right outside my bedroom window and if I ever catch him he's gonna be on eBay the next morning without a doubt! :madd: Auction fee to the fund!

Photo taken showing the trees from balcony outside bedroom...

My guess would be Blackbird or nightingale. This sight might help with an Id.

[url=http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/]The RSPB: Bird guide[/url]

Mark

Does it sound like a bicycle pump? Not that that helps 'cos I know that one as the bicycle pump bird.

Well I have his cousin here Carole its that liquid call of the nightingale that "lulls" me to sleep every night, guess I am lucky really, he/she has been here since we arrived, hello he/she just started again!... and the chickens will be at it in the morning...I love Italy!
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[quote=Russ;117352]Living here in Abruzzo, we have a real diverse variety of birds and listening to their songs in the morning is heavenly.

Therer is one that stands out and is so persistent and annoying. I feel sure it is some variety of thrush.

Does anyone else recognise this distinctive bird?

Russ

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Many varieties of thrush can be annoying. :bigergrin:

We have one git around our place that sounds like the alarm which goes off at the "bad bloke's" hidden world domination centre when the "goodies" are being helicoptered in to help James Bond in the final action sequence before Bond gets to have his 007 away with the girl etc etc.

Goes a bit like "errrr, errrrr, errrr, errrr, errrr, errrrr " pause, then repeat errrr, errrr etc- but stops short of "Perimeter violation" and "Intruder alert" :laughs:

Think it might be a sort of Crow chappie. :veryconfused:

Sorry guys my bird tops all of those as he is, I am sure, very closely related to a velociraptor! :yes:
The little blee...umm...darling only screeches when I want to sleep - (and him) says it's an owl but I know the damn thing is prehistoric.

Does he sound like this?

[url]http://www.owlpages.com/sounds/Athene-noctua-1.mp3[/url]

The thrush is at it again too!

[quote=Markcarter;117371]My guess would be Blackbird or nightingale. This sight might help with an Id.

[URL="http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/"]The RSPB: Bird guide[/URL]

Mark[/quote]

Oh yes... I know I've got blackbirds, so that [I]could[/I] be it... then he/she fights with the four cockerels two doors down from about 4.30am to see who can be the noisiest.

Thank goodness the local priest doesn't get his fingers near the electronic bell chime button until 6.58am...Even loving Italy as much as I do, I do think that if [U][I]all [/I][/U]of them let go at once then murder would rapidly become a viable option.... :winki: :laughs:

Yup, it's a great time of year for the birds. It's the nightingales which cut through everything else here and they carry on all night long on occasion. The Little Owls (one of which we rescued last year - below) are also particularly noisy through the courting season.

[img]http://www.the-mudhut.com/umbria/iMAG1NE_20080718_003.jpg[/img]

This is a wonderful site with recordings of ½ûÂþÌìÌà birds. It helps if you know the Latin name for the bird - in the case of the nightingale there are three distinct [B]luscinia[/B]s. I know it's a pain for some of you that the site is ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, but those birdsong sites which I have found in English tend to be extremely international, and at least with this site you can be sure it is a species which lives in Italy.

When you click on the name of the bird it takes a moment or two to load whatever relevant program you have on the computer, (for me it's quicktime which opens). Then you can hear the birdsong and identify it - or eliminate that particular bird from your researches.

[url=http://www.scricciolo.com/eurosongs/canti.htm#n]Suoni & Canti degli uccelli d'Europa[/url]

The owl could be Strix aluco, noisy and weird. Also worth checking out is the European Shag - Phalacrocorax aristotelis.....

[quote=Russ;117399]Does he sound like this?

[URL]http://www.owlpages.com/sounds/Athene-noctua-1.mp3[/URL]

The thrush is at it again too![/quote]

Well thanks alot Russ I am now 'au fait' with 4,843 owl calls including my particular favourite [I]Great Horned Owl - Excited[/I] I kid you not! :wideeyed:Needless to say my velociraptor owl was not amongst them and I will be kicking (and him) neatly on the shins upon his return home :madd:

Moxie :laughs:

Great link Charles. Thanks for that.

I'm quite fond of that last one myself :winki:

Your James Bond bird sounds like a common o' garden Magpie Ghianda (I don't think it can be May Day somehow, although another scary type of black bird).

The thrush has gone quiet for the night,hopefully!

I think the nightingale is brilliant and we are so fortunate to have them as rather rare in UK. There are lots of sites on the net where you can check out birdsong clips. Had rather surreal experience of playing nightingale song at midnight while confirming that the real thing was singing its head off in the trees opposite. Incidentally nightingales are very undistinguished, brownish birds which spend most of their time skulking in the undergrowth so visual confirmation would be difficult.