call note
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[edit]call note (plural call notes)
- The note naturally used by a male bird to call a female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy.
- 2017, Roger M. Latham, Complete Book of the Wild Turkey:
- If the hunter wishes to master all of the different calls of possible use in hunting turkeys, he is confronted with the task of learning eleven. There are sex and age variations in pitch, tone quality, loudness, and inflection for most of the call notes