Understand quail calls - coturnix

Just today, one of my 6 week old hens made a new sound that pretty much sounds exactly like a repetitive cricket sounds. You can see her open her beak to make the sound. My guess is that she is calling to nearby roos that she cannot see, or her first egg is coming. I honestly have no idea haha, but she is not really looking panicked and the environment hasn't changed at all.
Well I just collected my first ever egg! Turns out it most likely was an egg-laying-related sound after all. 😁
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot_20230126-143519_Gallery.jpg
    Screenshot_20230126-143519_Gallery.jpg
    1.1 MB · Views: 4
  • Screenshot_20230126-143340_Gallery.jpg
    Screenshot_20230126-143340_Gallery.jpg
    1 MB · Views: 7
Okay so I caught a couple of different noises this morning! There's a lot of other bird calls in the background, sorry - outdoor aviary! I've uploaded them to google drive so hopefully they're accessible files.

This is the frog noise coming from the middle male (at the beginning, then they got distracted by another bird):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13pxwEmCwylwgnn2vtjZzEMgSACJ0e0OP/view?usp=sharing

Then there's this, which I assume is a nervous sound:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tviJCbzYCFVJhBWmNbyzu-b71P0v2Lf/view?usp=sharing

This one is coming from the female at the very back right, who's mostly hidden by the timber support. Might be hard to hear, it's kind of like a soft hooting:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13x8siXC9eWadMKXJcps3LaNoxUJNvf9i/view?usp=sharing

And then the same female up the back making this sound - is this a locator call? Another quail picks it up but I'm not sure which.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/148ZZTQnidTc41b1U5NaunRgzi59pMsgm/view?usp=sharing
I have one which i assume is letting the other quail to stay away from my food 😆
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom