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Contributor
Mike Andersen Media from this contributor Profile
Date
1:48 AM
Location
Council Road
Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: Vocalizations from a flock of over 200 swans at the eastern end of Safety Sound east of Nome on the Seward Peninsula. Several loud bouts of buggling by multiple individuals at 0:14, 5:38, 8:00, 31:30, 46:50, 50:19 (flying). Recorded in MS stereo with a Sound Devices 744T and MP2 in flat. This cut starts on disc MJA224 and continues on MJA225. Other Behaviors: Establish Flock Contact. Habitat: Dune, Beach.
Additional species
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Brant Branta bernicla
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Common Scoter Melanitta nigra
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sound Devices 744T
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 20; Sennheiser MKH 30
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 29 Nov 2007 - Mike Andersen
- Digitized
- 28 Nov 2007 - Mike Andersen
- Edited
- 29 Nov 2007 - Mike Andersen