Far more passerine species migrate at night than most birders realize. In
fact, passerines that do NOT migrate at night might be limited to a very short
list. Blue Jay and American Crow would be two examples. So there is no real
reason why you could not have heard a Sprague's Pipit migrating overhead.
Alan Wormington
Leamington, Ontario
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From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Questions regarding Sprague's Pipit
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:57:52 -0600
Greetings All:
I was out in my backyard clearing some broken tree limbs from my back porch
when I heard what sounded exactly, to me, like a Sprague's Pipit - giving
the short flight calls - fly over.
I went in and confirmed that the call matched up at the Cornell song and
call site.
Question 1) Do Sprague's Pipits call during nocturnal flight?
Question 2) What else could I have heard?
Some background information: we do get a fair number of Sprague's Pipit
records in the region during fall migration.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson, Lubbock
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