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2. Functional art: How Dan Wittenberg makes turkey calls that last

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   Apr. 12—The old turkey call is lined with notches. Dan Wittenberg adds one for each legal turkey the call draws within shooting range. ... such as diaphragm calls — placed in the mouth and ...

3. Turkey call - Wikipedia

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   A slate pot call A turkey call striker. Pot calls may be the most common turkey calls [citation needed] because they are easy to use and create lifelike turkey sounds. Friction calls feature a round (usually) surface, and the user creates sound by drawing a peg, or "striker", across the surface.

4. Bird anatomy - Wikipedia

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   The gizzard of some species of herbivorous birds, like turkey and quails, [66] contains small pieces of grit or stone called gastroliths that are swallowed by the bird to aid in the grinding process, serving the function of teeth. The use of gizzard stones is a similarity found between birds and dinosaurs, which left gastroliths as trace ...

5. Syrinx (bird anatomy) - Wikipedia

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   The syrinx (from the Greek word "σύριγξ" for pan pipes) is the vocal organ of birds. Located at the base of a bird's trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal folds of mammals. [1] The sound is produced by vibrations of some or all of the membrana tympaniformis (the walls of the syrinx) and the pessulus, caused by air flowing through ...

6. Place of articulation - Wikipedia

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   For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs. [1]: 10 It is a point where a constriction is made between an active and a passive articulator.

7. Articulatory phonetics - Wikipedia

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   To produce sounds that people can interpret as spoken words, the movement of air must pass through the vocal folds, up through the throat and, into the mouth or nose to then leave the body. Different sounds are formed by different positions of the mouth—or, as linguists call it, "the oral cavity" (to distinguish it from the nasal cavity).