ML256666951
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Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Flying
- Sounds
- Flight call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Clear quiddyquit call. This was very unexpected for me - this bird has not been seen in Washington County for a long time, as it no longer breeds at the airport (which is south of me, anyway). However, I can't find another bird that this could have been. Three clear ascending notes, ranging from around 2kHz to 3kHz in frequency. I confirmed by searching through Pieplow (2017)'s book on calls of Eastern NAm., and by going onto xeno-canto and ML and looking for other possible calls. My recording matched the Upland Sandpiper, and I'm not sure what else it could be. They will be migrating south from the north. Any feedback would be excellent. The call frequency ranges from 2khz to 4kHz, although the quality shows only the main band. - WIPL was ruled out due to location, call depth, and tripartite quality. - RNPH was ruled out due to depth of call, length (over 30mS), polyphonicity (1 band, versus 6), tripartite quality, and shape of the call. - SOSP was ruled out due to lower frequency, shape of the ascents (less hockey-shaped), and that the first two calls were similar and the last wasn't, while we would have expected the first call to be higher and the last two similar in SOSP. - SPSA was ruled out due to much lower frequency, length of individual calls (SPSA is longer). As well, this sounds like many other UPSA calls on eBird and Xeno-Canto. For more information on disambiguation, I wrote up https://birdinginvermont.com/nfc-species/upsa for this.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Intel Nuc with Audacity
- Microphone
- Old Bird 21c NFC mic
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 154.11 KB