Black Skimmer Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Calls (niger)
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New Jersey, May 27, 2017Recorded by Jay McGowan | Macaulay Library
Calls (niger)
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Yucatán, December 20, 2017Recorded by Jay McGowan | Macaulay Library
Calls (niger)
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California, November 25, 2012Recorded by Paul Marvin | Macaulay Library
Calls (niger)
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Florida, May 15, 2007Recorded by Martha Fischer | Macaulay Library
Calls (cinerascens)
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Madre de Dios, September 16, 1982Recorded by Ted Parker | Macaulay Library
Colony (cinerascens)
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Ica, July 06, 1982Recorded by Ted Parker | Macaulay Library

Sounds provided by Macaulay Library.
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Songs

None.

Calls

The only vocalization is a nasal, yapping bark, given by both sexes in many contexts and often heard from flying birds during bouts of foraging. Males give calls slightly lower in pitch than females.