Have you heard Clapper Rails call from cordgrass mudflats? Wading through the cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, mudflats just after sunrise, shorebirds calls and songs abound. This thirteen minute field recording clip features Clapper rails, Rallus crepitans along with marsh wrens, Cistothorus palustris and Carolina wrens, Thryothorus ludovicianus calling and in dawn song. Marsh wren's call is a high-pitched, shrill trill and I've seen their nests just up from the shoreline constructed in christmasberry shrubs, Lycium carolinianum. Clapper rails are more secretive birds, nesting in the cordgrass and hunting one of their favorite prey, fiddler crabs. The Carolina wren's melodious call is familiar to all, and their songs accompany both the marsh wren's and clapper rail's towards the end of the audio. Recording from west of Lighthouse Road close to the gulf of Mexico out around the fringes of windy cordgrass mudflats (you can also hear the waves coming in up on the shoreline, sunrise. Sony D100 & A10, Clippy mics, windbubbles & drybags.
Kevin Songer
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
13:14.249
File size
581.7 MB
Sample rate
96000.0 Hz
Bit depth
32 bit
Channels
Stereo
