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Identify this I’ve heard this bird for the last 20 years and always assumed that it is a snipe. But, not sure. I call it the squeaky wheel bird. We are surrounded by snipe and there is much drumming at night, but this is a daytime call. We live on Skye.

I’ve heard this bird for the last 20 years and always assumed that it is a snipe. But, not sure. I call it the squeaky wheel bird. We are surrounded by snipe and there is much drumming at night, but this is a daytime call. We live on Skye.

Dawn Rose 20/04/2019 09:08

Snipe?

0 grumpyjames 20/04/2019 11:10

Not very Snipe like, but could it be a Dunnock? Their song to me was once described as "squeaky supermarket trolley wheel" which has proven to be memorable.

Obligatory xeno-canto link: www.xeno-canto.org/.../Prunella-modularis
and for Snipe too, just in case: www.xeno-canto.org/.../Gallinago-gallinago
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