Sound Gallery - Killdeer

A killdeer forages in marshy wetlands, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana.

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• Killdeer

  
  

  Sound recording of killdeer, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana

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  Audio Transcript

  The distress or alarm sound of a killdeer with sharp dee noises that intensify into a nervous, bubbling trill, and then back to sharp dee noises.

Spectrogram of killdeer. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram visualizes the killdeer's series of high-pitched cheeps

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