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ML638367229

Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

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Contributor

David Lambeth Media from this contributor Profile

Date

1 Jul 2025 eBird checklist S256085882

Location

Grand Forks--Ryan Lake
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 47.8701963, -97.0544176
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Not specified
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Observation details

Discovered a few minutes earlier by Adam Chambers who saw it in flight and then heard it "singing" from the cattails about 25 feet alway. When I arrived, I heard it almost continuously for the 15 minutes or so that I was there. The Merlin app did not identify the songs although I could clearly hear them on the recordings. The location of the songs, coming from cattails, rules out any possibility of Black-billed Cuckoo. To my knowledge, this is the 3rd record for Grand Forks County in the last 50 years.

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30.08 MB

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