HISSING AND CLICKING

July 2009
What do you think you hear in this recording? A clockwork? A model railroad?
Or maybe a snake?



090713, Eurasian Wryneck, RHB Stöhna, Germany

 

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Yesterday we ringed some juvenile Wrynecks Jynx torquilla. What you can hear
is their defense call. For us it was a really impressive experience to hear and see
this bunch of hissing and clicking young birds in the nest-box.
This defence behaviour is optical remarkable too. The Wrynecks turn their heads
all the time to impersonate a snake. Combined with the sound it didn´t miss its
effect!