Hi again mojo111,
Anyone looking out of their car window at long stretches of prairie
grass, might think to themselves, "How peaceful and quiet", and they
would be only half right. While peaceful, it is anything but quiet,
whether by day or by night. Here are some of the night sounds you will
hear on the prairie, depending on the location and season.
BIRDS
Owls
Barred
Screech
Great Horned
Burrowing
Whip-poor-wills
Chuck-will's-widow
Thrushes
Woodcocks
Warblers
Hawks
Migrating Birds
FROGS
Western Chorus
Cope's Grey Treefrogs
Northern Cricket
Plains Leopard
Bullfrog
Spring Peepers
Woodhouse Toads
COYOTES - howls & barks
BATS - wings
DEER - browsing
SNAKES - slithering
INSECTS
Crickets
Katydids
Cicadas
Grasshoppers
WIND
GRASSES - rustling
DUST - sifting
WAVELETS on Rivers
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net:
http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
Center for Bioacoustics:
"Night Sounds in a Texas River Bottom Frog Chorus, Barred Owls, and
Coyotes on a cool fall evening on the Navasota River in Grimes County,
Texas"
http://bioacoustics.cbi.tamucc.edu/archive/sounds.html
Prairie Explorer: The Biomes of North America:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/review/kdr/prairieexplorer.html
I hope this helps. If you have any questions, please post a
clarification request before rating my answer.
Thank you,
hummer
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