Black-bellied Plover & Greater Yellowlegs – Pluvialis squatarola & Tringa melanoleuca

Pointe-aux-Outardes
A wonderful experience. Listening to the calls of these shorebirds at dawn, observing migrating seabirds on the horizon, smelling the saline air of low tide and feeling the cold announcing the end of the summer.
Parc nature de Pointe-aux-Outardes, QC, 49°02’32.0″N 68°27’17.7″W. September 6, 2018. 5:20AM. low tide.

* Recording contains overlapping vocalizations of two species. The Black-bellied Plover’s ‘Pyoowee’ call and the Greater Yellowlegs’ song and ‘Klee’ call.