Jeremy - I concur with your identification , based on the calls. The only
one I have any suspicion about is yellowlegs 2. It would be nice to hear th=
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bird for a little longer. However, if you visually ID'd it as a greater, I
wouldn't be so bold as to overturn that ID based on the sound clip. There i=
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some variability in the calls of these species, but birds 1,3,4 & 5 are
safely within the respective norms.....based on my experience.
Mark Phinney
on 10/19/05 5:22 AM, Jeremy Minns at wrote:
> I wonder if you North American shorebird experts could help me with some
> IDs. I have posted five files, Yellowlegs1 to Yellowlegs5, in the
> naturerecordists Member Files folder. All five were recorded here in
> Brazil. The recordists (which include myself) identified Yellowlegs1 and =
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> visually, as Greater Yellowlegs and 3-5 as Lesser. However they all sound
> rather alike to me and I wonder whether we confused these two similar
> species. Can anyone confirm or correct these IDs?
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> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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