Date: 2/7/26 10:37 am From: David Griffin (via aznmbirds Mailing List) <aznmbirds...> Subject: Re: [AZNMbirds] unknown Bird call
Great-tailed grackle is correct
On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 2:27 PM Jeff Miner <aznmbirds...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We were birding along Patagonia Lake State park several days ago and
> encountered and recorded a bird call we could not identify. It was
> consistently at 2.8 kHz with 2-9 flat, ear, ear, ear calls. We chased it
> from
> trees along the edge of the southeast side of the large steep rounded
> bridge
> up the hill into the campground where we lost it unfortunately. We never
> saw
> it. Merlin called it a Black-crested Titmouse, and the sonogram matches
> quite
> well, but that is not an AZ bird, so likely something else. I am
> considering
> Great tailed grackle, but have not found a sonogram that matches very
> well. I
> have uploaded three of the wav files we have:
>
> Unk bird 1 - Bewick's first then the target bird
> Unk bird 2
> Unk bird 3
>
>
> https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/NyqzCl8WJltAmjq6BCGfgIzWyTf?<domain...> >
> would love any thoughts on what it could be.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
