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What is this buck vocalization?

That food plot scrape was a hot spot in 2020 (the year the video was taken). A ton of different bucks used that scrape and I got to see a lot of aggressive behavior from that video camera.

And by the way, my daughter shot that buck in the second video about 50 yards from the camera a few days after the video was taken.
 
Snort wheeze.
your plot looks a lot like one of mine.
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It sounds like a cross between a fuzzy fleep and an excited flutter blast, but I would say it leans a bit more toward more fleep than flutter.
 
760 yards to that end and 260 in the other direction.
 

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Here's an interesting vocalization too. I'm not sure if it's a grunt or a growl.
 

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First one is a snort wheeze, second one I don't know if it has a name, but it's somewhere between a grunt and snort. That deer didn't spook, he was chasing another buck.

I saw a buck do both last year, chasing subordinate bucks away from his hot doe. I've heard them snort wheeze quite a few times, and growl/roar a couple times as well. It always involves a doe in heat, and it's always the dominant buck making the noise to run off other bucks.

This was one stud of a buck here. Heard him snort wheeze, growl, and make that charging grunt sound in your second video. Saw him twice last year, 3 days and 700 yards apart, with a hot doe each time. He kept all the other bucks away from her.

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I heard a buck roar two times in Canada right at dark and would of thought it was big foot if he wouldn't of been grunting like crazy after it chasing a doe in a thicket. Was definitely mature buck and craziest thing I've ever heard. Wish I had been able to record it.
 
fairchaser said:
Here's an interesting vocalization too. I'm not sure if it's a grunt or a growl.
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That's a grunt. I hear it a lot when several bucks are chasing one doe. I think they're breathing hard from running and when they grunt it comes out strained like that. I've often wondered if it's that or a grunt/sigh out of frustration. My dogs make similar noises when I'm teasing them with a treat.
 
BSK said:
That plot is in the only flat-bottomed valley I have on my place. In places, it's only 10 yards wide, but 150 yards long.
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Sounds exactly like one of my plots. I only have one hollow bottom and it's narrow & gets zig-zaggy as it leads around finger ridges into the bowl. My other plots are high up on shelf flats but not near as fertile as that bottom one. This year I'm going to try a plot on top of a hog back ridge. I'm afraid it's going to be tough growing but I'm gona try.
 
Sorry for the poor attempt at humor. I was waiting for my food before supper last night and tried to play it on my phone. Didn't work. After I got to my hotel room and listened to it on my computer it was pretty easy to ID. The first daylight clip is what has been often referred to as a "snort wheeze." He's telling the buck you can hear off camera "game on." The second nighttime clip is just a pissed off grunt. They can carry that vocalization longer in duration, and that's what others often refer to as a "buck roar." I think that buck is dealing with several bucks while he is tending a hot doe. There's probably one he's facing off camera to the right. You can barely make out another (what I suppose is another buck) just beyond camera range beyond the edge of the clearing straight in front of the camera. I picked up the shine of his eye as he walked right to left, and you can barely make out his body outline.

Though quiet and shy for the most part, whitetails can get really loud. The bigger they are the louder they can "yell." I've heard what I think are all the vocalizations identified in the wild... and a few more. My front yard is a "whitetail nightclub." I can sit on the porch in the dark in November and hear it all. What I've learned is that whitetails "talk" nonstop. Most of the vocalizations are rather quiet, low-frequency sounds that have meaning in their world. The thicker the cover the more they "talk." Anyone can hear them, but few can recognize the vocalizations and pick them out of the background noise.
 
jaybird62 said:
Sorry for the poor attempt at humor. I was waiting for my food before supper last night and tried to play it on my phone. Didn't work. After I got to my hotel room and listened to it on my computer it was pretty easy to ID. The first daylight clip is what has been often referred to as a "snort wheeze." He's telling the buck you can hear off camera "game on." The second nighttime clip is just a pissed off grunt. They can carry that vocalization longer in duration, and that's what others often refer to as a "buck roar." I think that buck is dealing with several bucks while he is tending a hot doe. There's probably one he's facing off camera to the right. You can barely make out another (what I suppose is another buck) just beyond camera range beyond the edge of the clearing straight in front of the camera. I picked up the shine of his eye as he walked right to left, and you can barely make out his body outline.
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Great info. Thanks.
 
jaybird62 said:
Though quiet and shy for the most part, whitetails can get really loud. The bigger they are the louder they can "yell." I've heard what I think are all the vocalizations identified in the wild... and a few more. My front yard is a "whitetail nightclub." I can sit on the porch in the dark in November and hear it all. What I've learned is that whitetails "talk" nonstop. Most of the vocalizations are rather quiet, low-frequency sounds that have meaning in their world. The thicker the cover the more they "talk." Anyone can hear them, but few can recognize the vocalizations and pick them out of the background noise.
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Funny you mention that. While hunting, deer are often only close enough to hear their vocalizations for only a few seconds. But now that I'm running trails cams with not only great video, but exceptional sound recording, I'm hear all sorts of vocalizations I've never heard before. I'm truly amazed at how much does "talk to" their fawns. They are constantly making all sorts of very low frequency communications. Even with good sound on the videos, I have to turn up the volume and listen close, because not only are these doe-fawn vocalizations quiet, they're very low frequency.
 
BSK said:
Turn up the volume and watch this video. What is the vocalization the buck makes at about the 13 to 14 second mark? He is watching something off camera, then aggressively makes the vocalization and works the scrape.
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Snort wheeze! There must have been another buck in the area, ready to fight if need be
 

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