[Tweeters] American pipit

[Marty]

Thank you and you’re absolutely correct. Please allow me to add the details I should have included in the original post including my location, which is provided below.

I am familiar with the range of the this pipit and was surprised to hear it’s call following it around my backyard through the front yard and into the greenbelt next-door, but could not  get a visual.
Listening to the bird, at first, I thought it was a Black-capped chickadee, but it had a couple of notes that were different, which caught my attention.
I have observed and photographed the this species in the Olympic mountains, and in Nome Alaska.

Respectfully, Marty Port Orchard 


 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
To: Marty <namaste at wavecable.com>, tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] American pipit
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Merlin is a wonderful app, but it makes mistakes all too regularly, especially confusing similar species. I have never taken it out for a day without detecting mistakes such as misidentifying a bird I'm looking at or not even recording a prominent song going on.

American Pipits have a two-noted call, not a single peep, so I wonder what else that might have been. And they are birds of wide-open country, never encountered in a wooded area and usually only vocalizing when in flight over that open country.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle


> On 09/12/2023 2:43 PM PDT Marty <namaste at wavecable.com> wrote:

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> Every morning before I get up I place my phone on the window sill with the Merlin app turned on to Sound Recording, 

> This morning I woke up to single note peeping I first thought was a House finch, but after listening for a few minutes, I realized it was not. I had Merlin app tuned on to sound recording and was surprised to see that as a peeping continued, the American pipit  illuminated up every time.

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> Marty



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