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[Solved!] Need help identifying an animal noise. (voca.ro)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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Took this audio recording while walking my dogs near a river valley in Central Illinois. The noise I'm not sure about is like a low whooshing sound. Kind of like someone spinning a jump rope really fast through the air.

If I had to guess the noise was on the other side of a 500ft clearing in a tree line. The Merlin app wasn't able to identify it as a bird of any sort and I have no idea what sort of mammal would make this noise in the midwest. It's not like any bobcat, fox, or coyote call I've ever encountered and I cant imagine it was something smaller than that still.

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[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's not a sound most people hear. It's a bit more common for hikers and hunters to hear it, especially later in the evening.