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Black Turnstone Sounds

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Washington, September 08, 2012Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
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British Columbia, September 19, 1961Recorded by Grace M. Bell / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 11, 1982Recorded by William W. H. Gunn / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 29, 2012Recorded by Gerrit Vyn / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 10, 1982Recorded by William W. H. Gunn / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Males vocalize during their display flight, a series of repeated rattling or buzzy calls that ends with a sharp, descending rattle as they come out of the display and land.

Calls

Year-round, turnstones give high-pitched, stuttering calls that make them easy to locate, even when they are camouflaged among dark rocks. They often call when flushed into flight. Nesting birds give a variety of other purring and trilling calls during courtship, conflict, and chick-rearing.

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