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BFS vocalisations

BFS vocalisations

by Bena Smith:
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Not sure if this interests anyone, or is quite a common thing, but Thursday (10 June) lunchtime I watched a group of 15 BFS on the scrape and two called to each other during the light rain and a third bird sometimes joined in. The vocalisations went on for at least 20 minutes and sounded a bit like a distant flock of geese with an even more distant elephant! First time for me to hear any sound whatsoever from a BFS.

A recording using my digital camera (quality is very poor, note the high pitched tones are Stilts):
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/doc/BFS.mp3

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Somebody suggested this may be courtship behaviour. Any other opinions?

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