Probably Type 4 Red Crossbill, an alternative call to the typical kip-kip
flight call. Compare with https://www.xeno-canto.org/159474. The list of
medium-sized songbirds to perch on top of a tree in the PNW is pretty small
-- robin, crossbill, Purple Finch, ... not many others.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 12:54 PM Tucker, Trileigh <TRI at seattleu.edu> wrote:


> Hello Tweets,

>

> A friend of mine made this recording last summer on the east side of San

> Juan Island and hasn't been able to identify it. It's not a call I'm

> familiar with either. She says it was calling from the top of a tree and

> estimated it was about robin-sized (backlit so only silhouetted), and

> hasn't heard it since, even though she lives part-time on SJI.

>

> Here's the link -; any thoughts?

>

> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c2w81RT15VD4ZvzMOG2_Ry0KWl3x3gis/view?usp=sharing

>

> Good birding,

> Trileigh

>

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