ML389826261
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Media notes
Sound of a territorial bird drumming.
Observation details
Coordinates: 46.02048, -69.08742. Fantastic looks at a female, followed by good but a little distant looks at a male. All field marks were visible, including the larger bill and solid glossy bluish-black back separating this species from American Three-toed. We located the birds by their resonant drumming and pushed into the open, boggy boreal forest where we were able to locate them. The birds gave their chattering / laughing calls a couple times. I got a recording of some drumming. I actually went back to the road and ran about 0.6 miles back to my car where another Maine birder named Howie was birding the road. He'd been looking for them too this morning. He drove with me back up the road where Amy had now located the male. We all got good looks. Howie got some photos. By pure luck, a little later, we saw a female fly over and land on the southern side of the road. This could have been a third bird or it could have been the same female as our initial sighting. We were perhaps a tenth of a mile away from our initial observation. Conservatively, we're recording only two individuals.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 11 Pro
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 5.03 MB