Shouting

American herring gull "cheering"

"Cheering" herring gull

" Jauchzen " ( long call , trumpeter call or "the challenge") is a very typical, loud series of calls from the seagulls , which is often associated with a series of movements and previous vocalizations.

The “shouting” of the herring gull (audio sample) can be described as aau aau au kjiiiau kjau kjau… . The middle part of the American herring gull (audio sample) is characterized by particularly high-pitched, shrill sounds, but this can also be the case with European herring gulls. With the black-headed gull (audio sample) it sounds much lower, with the common gull (audio sample) it sounds very high. With other large gulls of the genus Larus , but also with other genera, it sounds partly similar, partly very species-specific, but follows the same pattern in each case.

The "shouting" is expressed especially in the summer months and within a social association and expresses dominance. It is brought forward both from flight and by seated birds. In the latter case, it is not infrequently introduced by one to three barking sounds ( aau aau au ... ), expressing the departure intention. To do this, the head is lowered slightly. Then the head is lowered more and the introductory kijj ... is uttered . Then the head is raised in a flowing transition and the second part of the polysyllabic series of calls follows with the beak wide open … kjau kjau kjau… . The seated bird often assumes a slight incline.

literature

• Niko Tinbergen : The Herring Gull's World - The Study of the Social Behavior of Birds , Collins, London 1953 (5th edition from 1976), ISBN 0-00-219444-9 , p. 32f
• Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim , KM Bauer : Handbook of the birds of Central Europe . Volume 8 / I: Charadriiformes. 3rd part: snipe, gull and alken birds. AULA-Verlag, ISBN 3-923527-00-4 .
• Friedrich Goethe : The calls of the ice gull and the herring gull, a comparison . Extended German version of a lecture from July 1972 to the Brit. Orn. Union in Reykjavík. Ornithological station 31, 1982
• Friedrich Goethe: Die Silbermöwe , Neue Brehm Bücherei, Issue 182, A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1956, without ISBN

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tinbergen (1953), p. 10f, see literature
2. ↑ Stuart Fisher: 40008 (MP3) xeno-canto.org. October 23, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
3. ↑ Glutz von Blotzheim, p. 530, see literature
4. ↑ Allen T. Chartier: 11855 (MP3) xeno-canto.org. March 6, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
5. ↑ Friedrich Goethe: On biology, especially the ethography of the polar gull (Larus glaucoides Meyer, 1822) , Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Vienna. 88/89 (Ser. B), 1986, p. 126
6. ↑ Jarek Matusiak: 72849 (MP3) xeno-canto.org. April 30, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
7. ↑ Glutz von Blotzheim, p. 679f, see literature
8. ↑ Stuart Fisher: 44726 (MP3) xeno-canto.org. February 14, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
9. ↑ Glutz von Blotzheim, p. 447, see literature
10. ↑ Glutz von Blotzheim, p. 568, see literature

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