ML68601341
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
one clear call given while sitting on sand; the bird started calling after sme playback and after we approached a bit, but it did not fly
Observation details
***mega; flew past giving classic "poo-ii" call which I first heard over background noise and rustling, thinking it sounded like Common Ringed, but thinking to myself that it must just be a poorly heard Golden-Plover since we had one about 30 minutes earlier. It called once more and I started shouting "Common Ringed Plover, get on those birds!" (6 small shorebirds were flying past) and Evan Lipton and I were able to find them and watch them drop on to the beach at the base of the causeway (Evan's view was better and he could confirm that's where they stopped). We rushed over there and relocated it. After studies through scopes, we belly crawled up to it, played some audio to prompt it to call, and were able to get diagnostic photos and audio recordings. Later, 15 or so people arrived and twitched successfully, with the bird flying south to Gooseberry Neck again around 11am. Real time field notes: bill all dark but not obviously longer, though it was thinner at base and thus proportionately longer than those of Semipalmateds; crown paler and obviously heavily fringed white; upper back heavily fringed white; paler back; breastband pale brown with pale fringing; pale over eye connecting to forehead but buffy over eye; maybe slightly larger and plumper; full even white neck collar with half width black collar; forehead and eyebrow not crisp on edges, unlike Semipalmateds which were crisp edged on both forehead patch and eyebrow; dark-based feathers on front of forehead, on face, and on breast line occasionally make those areas appear dark; center of breast and just pale buff but edges heavily scalloped with whitish on edges.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 6SE
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Rode Rec LE
- Original file size
- 612.47 KB