ML612370035
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- Behaviors
- Flying
- Sounds
- Call
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Media notes
three calls in the recording, at about 00:01, 00:06, and 00:11.
Observation details
rare but somewhat regular in Hawai‘i, perhaps a returning bird from last winter? first picked up on a strikingly pale tattler foraging on the east side of the west pond here 21.90018° N, 159.60500° W, notably lacking dark flanks the same tone as the upperparts that WATA shows. went over there and saw the bird up pretty close, still looking quite pale and with a very subtly more prominent supercilium behind the eye than WATA. right as I got my phone up to take digiscope shots it flew to the west side of the pond, where I was able to take some more distant shots and see that in the same light as WATA it was definitely a more pale bird with more pale flanks. as it took flight it also called, making calls vaguely similar to WATA but less piercing, less rapid, and less smoothly rolling together (not the classic plover-like calls of this species but a perfect match with the second call in the third recording in the Merlin app). later had it back towards the east side of the west pond, and as I settled in at the beach it started calling a lot, this time mostly doing the classic Pluvialis-like two-part slow calls, flying out to the coastal rocks that protect the beach, back to the west pond, and then out to the south point with a WATA presumably towards the coastal rocks there. clearly a tattler and not a plover making these calls by visuals. photos and audio tba
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