Hello, Birders. Nick Komar writes: > The calls on the recording (made during the day > in northeastern South America) had 4 and 5 notes. > Browsing other Xeno-canto recordings reveals > that this flight call can be 2-7 notes in length. > The call that I have heard here in Colorado from > overflying nocturnal and early-morning migrants > has typically been 3 notes. Have others noticed > this?
I think the "classic" Upland Sandpiper flight call is a three-syllable "quiddyquit." Here's a recording of that "classic" trisyllabic call: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kalahari/migrating.html Scroll down to "7. Upland Sandpiper" and listen to the WAV file. Some PC users may need to right-click on the file, save it to their hard drive, and listen therefrom. That said, four-syllable flight calls are perfectly typical, in my experience. By the way, I don't think there's a difference between the nighttime and daytime flight calls of Upland Sandpiper. We just tend not to be attuned to them all that much when we're out by day. They're high overhead, they're flying to South America, they can't be bothered with us, and we're all preoccupied with our Atlas blocks and such. It's a psychological thing, more than anything else. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Follow Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine ------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
