Hello, and wish me luck! I’m going to post a short video I took yesterday, in an attempt to record the sound of this bird. (Also pardon the bathtub, I was standing at the bathroom window).
I hear this call all the time in my yard in North Florida. To me, it sounds like the bird is saying “Rickety, rickety, rickety.” I’ve never seen the bird, and haven’t been able to identify the sound with an app, so I turn to you guys!
The bird calls twice during the video, the best capture is at about 10 seconds.
I would suggest you get the Merlin bird ID app. It’s free and it identifies all the birdsong it hears. I would recommend it even without this question because it’s fun.
I did, and it is fun! My dogs were very patient until I played the barred owl call and then they all jumped up barking and looking for it.
I’ll try again going through the list, because I heard some birds that sounded capable of making the call, but none that actually said “rickety”.
I haven’t yet figured out if it can listen to my video clip. I just went through and listened to the samples it gave of birds in my area.
It can record and identify also, but I haven’t heard a peep out of the feathery little stinker since I downloaded the app.
I just played the video while holding up my phone with Merlin active, and it’s telling me you’ve got a Carolina Wren. They’re common in Northern Florida, according to Merlin.
If you ask me, forget AI: Merlin is the best technology to come along in the last fifteen years.
Merlin does fall under the umbrella of AI. Specifically I believe it works by Fourier analysis of spectral bird calls and then uses trained machine learning algorithms to identify.
Thank you! I played the sample and it doesn’t sound exactly like what I’m hearing, but it does make sense. We’ve got loads of them. I had to move a nest with a tiny egg out of the garage the other day, maybe “rickety” is a bad name I’m being called.
