Please help me ID this animal sound, I’m losing it
Here's a bunch of unrelated of photos of birds in our area I've photographed that are NOT the culprit. I'm also never gonna beat the "became a birder by accident" allegations
For the last few months, every time I’ve gone on a walk I’ve heard a sound - an animal call that to me sounds like some kind of large bird - and what started as idly wondering what it was, moved on to stopping whenever I heard it to try to discern, has now descended into long fevered youtube scrubbing of various animal sounds trying to ID the motherfucker.
I’ve tried various bird sound ID apps, I’ve tried sound-matching to existing animal call recordings - nothing has taken.
Can anyone help me figure out what the hell this thing is?
For location purposes: I’m in southern Connecticut and the first time I heard the sound was February of 2025. It usually makes the sound in calls of 2-5 at a time, in this fifteen second recording it calls twice, two times each. (It also always happens from a particular direction which makes me wonder if it's someone's exotic pet a street over; I thought maybe a cockatoo but it's not quite right)
In our neighborhood we have: great horned owls, screech owls, red tailed hawks, Cooper’s hawks, peregrine falcons and turkey vultures regularly flying overheard - we have cardinals, robins, blue jays, chimney swifts, mockingbirds, carolina warblers and sparrows, even woodpeckers nesting everywhere - but none of the above match this sound. I've ever tried outside of birds in the odd event it's something else.
I'd really just like to know what it is lmao