ML611067726
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Observation details
Audio and details later Insane. First encounter with this species was when we were standing here: (40.9213093, -102.6489940). We heard a really really sweet rattle and we listened. We began hearing this really weird buzzy robotic call followed by a cute “tew” and again an exceptionally sweet rattle, and it was clear we were dealing with SNBU . We searched for the bird on the dam but couldn’t find anything. We decided to stand where we were before as it was out of the wind, and we had a second bird flyover about 15-20 minutes later. It was a similar experience with hearing the rattle, then hearing the buzzy calls (we were able to obtain recordings of this call). The call matches Merlin’s first call recording of SNBU. The rattle call was shockingly different from LALO. Ive heard this call hundreds of times in Alaska, Iceland, ect, but I wasn’t really able to compare it with LALO rattle at the time. It really doesn’t sound that much like a LALO, and it’s so sweet and almost tuneful that we picked it up the second time from quite far away. Just about as good as a flyover SNBU experience gets.
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