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Help IDing a Bird with Strange Call/Flight

  • 18-06-2018 5:31pm
    #1
    Brontosaurus
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    I was in county clare, around Loop Head and Doonbeg. These were small brown-streaked birds, looking similar to pipits.

    They would fly up from the ground (from grassy vegetation), making a loud and quick and constant alarm-like call, once they flew to their highest extent, they would fly straight down and quickly, with their call getting louder and faster.

    It reminded me of the sound WW2 fighters planes would make as they dive-bombed in terms of how the flew and how their calls got louder as they flew downward.

    Listening on youtube, it sounds similar to the meadow pipit but a lot louder and faster in urgency.


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  • #2
    Del.Monte
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    Skylark?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guYUPjl9t6s

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  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Skylark for me too.


  • #4
    Brontosaurus
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    I don't they were skylarks, they flew up and down again, rather than hanging in the air. Their call was also more monotonous, as in it was the same note repeated, just repeated faster and faster as it flew up and down.


  • #5
    WildIreland
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    Brontosaurus wrote: »
    I was in county clare, around Loop Head and Doonbeg. These were small brown-streaked birds, looking similar to pipits.

    They would fly up from the ground (from grassy vegetation), making a loud and quick and constant alarm-like call, once they flew to their highest extent, they would fly straight down and quickly, with their call getting louder and faster.

    It reminded me of the sound WW2 fighters planes would make as they dive-bombed in terms of how the flew and how their calls got louder as they flew downward.

    Listening on youtube, it sounds similar to the meadow pipit but a lot louder and faster in urgency.

    If it looks like a pipit and sounds like a pipit... then it's probably a pipit. :-)

    Seriously though, it sounds very like a meadow pipit from your description, and it is by far the most likely. Louder and faster calls than a YouTube video wouldn't rule out meadow pipit for me - there's a fair degree of variation, and call volume is subjective -- it depends on lots of factors that may not necessarily come through the same in a video.

    Meadow pipit would be my best guess -- but hard to say for certain from a description like that.

    Here's a BTO video comparing skylark, meadow pipit and tree pipit that may be more useful (NB. They're NOT breeding tree pipits on the south coast of Ireland).

    https://youtu.be/Ti5-wah4eBA



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