https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533452 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:51:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533452 There are in fact two calls: one with regular pitch but “ooo-cuck”, in the early part of the video, and the other one, “cuck-ooo”, with falling pitch!!! I’m a musicologist! You must believe me! (At least till tomorrow.)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533451 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:47:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533451 (I wonder if it is the BLI April Fools Joke. .. but don’t tell anybody, let’s see how many other people fall for it)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533450 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/31/crazy-cuckoos-invade-europe/#comment-533450 Sounds like an audio edit to me. I can hear something very much like the end of the decay of the standard call after the “new” call ends. That and the decay to silence of the new bird call just doesn’t sound right. I could be wrong but it sounds more like someone who was ok but not very good at sound editing put this one together.

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