Hoping someone can ID this bird call!

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Recorded in rural South Wales, UK, last September, nobody I’ve played it to can tell what it is (and Merlin didn’t know either)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwEW5eprcyu8PtiOfxdwc_8hdDLn25wV/view?usp=drivesdk

(Apologies for the Drive link but I couldn’t find an easy way to share audio files on here directly)

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This is correct

It sounded nothing like a cat to me, honestly. It was more like a squawk in real life, with a consistent high pitched ending sound which barely comes across in the recording, I’ve never heard a cat make a sound like that

All three of my cats sound exactly like that. Especially when the food bowl is empty.

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Same here

If you’ve got a recording of the sound I’ll gladly compare 😁 seems like I’m outnumbered here so I’ll disappointedly concede that it’s a cat

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Was definitely going to help you with this, but cat has become 16 years old and has lost a lot of weight, is probably in his last year of life. Other cat sometimes makes noises that seem to come from star wars, really no joke.







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