Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) song & sonogram


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Sounds & Sonograms > Orthoptera Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket Phaneroptera falcata Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - female, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021 Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - female, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021 Calcareous grassland on chalk downland with Hazel (Corylus avellana) and Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) scrub - habitat of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata), Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021 Wye NNR, Kent, England 18 September 2021 Calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C. A single, faint, largely ultrasonic element/syllable repeated every 1.2 to 1.8 seconds. Mostly inaudible to my ears, except at very close range with microphone right next to the insect (much louder with bat detector set to 20 kHz). Long series lasting several minutes often preceded by an echeme of around 16 syllables at a rate of 8/sec (80-90 ms per syllable). [File name: sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1] Click here for the MP3 file Wye NNR, Kent, England 18 September 2021 Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C. Wye NNR, Kent, England 18 September 2021 Calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C. Occasionaly producing a faster series, with syllables every 0.3 to 0.4 sec. At 7.8, 24.6 and 29.9 seconds in this recording it produced two or three even higher frequency syllables. [File name: sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut2] Click here for the MP3 file Wye NNR, Kent, England 18 September 2021 Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C. Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - male, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021 Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - male, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021 About \| A-Z Index \| Search this Website \| Links \| Ayrshire Bird Report \| Ayrshire Bird Race \| Biking & Birding to Work \| Scarlet Banded-Barbet \| Blog Index \| Cycling \| Ambient
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