Purple Sandpiper Sounds

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New Jersey, March 29, 2013Recorded by Ted Floyd / Macaulay Library
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Nunavut, June 11, 2008Recorded by Gerrit Vyn / Macaulay Library
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Norðurland eystra, May 30, 2018Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
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Nunavut, June 21, 1984Recorded by Michael Dyer / Macaulay Library
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Norðurland eystra, May 30, 2018Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
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Nunavut, June 11, 2008Recorded by Gerrit Vyn / Macaulay Library
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Norðurland eystra, May 30, 2018Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
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Norðurland eystra, May 30, 2018Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Males in display flight over the territory deliver a rollicking, chortling song of repeated phrases. This song does not closely resemble that of any other shorebird, but some elements have a grating quality that recalls Dunlin.

Calls

Interacting Purple Sandpipers often give squeaky, coarse kee or keer calls as well as a chuckling, descending chatter that recalls Semipalmated Sandpiper. Flight call is a low kip. Nesting birds give many other vocalizations.

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Sandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)

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