Red Knot Sounds

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Sounds

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Yucatán, December 20, 2017Recorded by Jay McGowan | Macaulay Library
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Massachusetts, August 19, 2009Recorded by Michael Harvey | Macaulay Library
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New York, September 02, 2018Recorded by Jay McGowan | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, July 01, 2012Recorded by Lucas DeCicco | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 22, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer | Macaulay Library
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Washington, May 13, 2017Recorded by Lucas DeCicco | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 22, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, May 25, 2013Recorded by Andrew Spencer | Macaulay Library

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Songs

Displaying males sing a flight song that is described as “moaning” and “flutelike,” a wistful poorr-mee that becomes a series of poorr-poorr, then culminates in whip-poo-mee as the flight display concludes, with the male gliding toward earth.

Calls

Birds flushed from the nest utter a quick whit-whit. Males in conflict give a “chatter yodel,” written yeh-yeh-yeh, while males courting females produce a high weeee. During most of the year, knots that are foraging or flushed simply give a nasal knutt.