Blue Jay calls a good match for ARU "mystery bird"

Back in October, I wrote this:

I have learned from an anonymous source that the ARU cuts trumpeted as being a good match for an Ivory-billed Woodpecker (and reported as such in a letter to Science in early September) are more likely of Blue Jays. Moreover, the sound collection at Cornell has several cuts of Blue Jays that seem to match, or at least account for, the sounds recorded on the ARUs.

Although in their own collection, it appears that these Blue Jay cuts were not examined before the Cornell team sent their latest offering to Science. Rumor has it that the Cornell team has since analyzed these Blue Jay cuts and acknowledged that they are a good match.

I now have one of those Blue Jay cuts on CD, and, it is indeed a good match for the ARU cuts. If you'd like to get a copy of the cut yourself, fill in the Cornell web form by asking for Blue Jay cut LNS #13453. You'll have to pay for the CD and processing time, but the total cost likely won't come to more than about $30.

Cut #13453 is 34 seconds long--the "ARU-matching" Blue Jay calls start at about the 19 second mark...