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Taylor Sturm
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Crab Meadow Golf Course - Private
Suffolk, New York, United States
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- Age
- Unknown
- Sex
- Unknown
- Sounds
- Call; Flight Call
- Behaviors
- Breeding
- Tags
- ;
- Playback
- Not Used
Media notes
The exact moment the group was flushed by a golfer/maintenance person. You can hear the wingbeats of the flock in the beginning. They flew east towards Makamah, but later in the recording (00:40) you can hear them come back to the driving range giving a lot of cool vocalizations. Constant plane/car noise.
Observation details
*Nice sized flock which has spent most of the day in the Northport area. When I saw the flock this morning I had approx 300 birds; some of the birds had left over the course of 8+ hours. This total is a very close estimate. The birds were in the driving range of the golf course. They flushed a few times as golfers got too close (audio below), but they always ended up circling around and landing back on the driving range to happily forage. There were approximately 5 adult blue morphs, 1 or 2 immature blue morphs, and a number of immature white morphs. Really cool to see a flock of this size here.
Technical Information
- Recorder
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Olympus LS-10
- Microphone
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Sennheiser MKE 300
- Accessories
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Windjammer
- Original file size
- 3,000KB