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Least Bittern: Clapper call is even-paced or slowing, unlike accelerating clapper calls of rails. • Contact call is a high, short erk; higher than other herons. • Song is a repeated series of guttural cooing notes; recalls Black-billed Cuckoo but less whistled quality and repeated less frequently (usually one series every 5-10+ seconds). Clapper call is even-paced or slowing, unlike accelerating clapper calls of rails. • Similar to Black-billed Cuckoo cooing, but lower and more nasal, and sets more widely-spaced.
Clapper call:
Contact call:
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Credits:All text copyright Michael O'Brien. All sounds copyright Macaulay Library. Image copyright Brian E. Small.