Solitary Sandpiper Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

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British Columbia, June 16, 2018Recorded by Jeff Dyck / Macaulay Library
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New York, April 30, 2017Recorded by Jay McGowan / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 24, 2006Recorded by Mike Andersen / Macaulay Library
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New York, May 15, 2019Recorded by Jay McGowan / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 24, 2006Recorded by Gerrit Vyn / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, May 20, 2017Recorded by Lucas DeCicco / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Males sing both while perched and in flight. The basic song is a series of short, high-pitched whistles that suddenly increases in frequency at about the middle. A more elaborate song, only given in flight, adds on a series of similar but rapidly ascending whistles.

Calls

The most commonly heard call is a sharp wheet or wheet-wheet-wheet, similar to that of Spotted Sandpiper but lower and more even in pitch. On the nesting grounds, researchers have described similar alarm calls, a quiet contact call, a loud chatter call, and a long whistle.