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Dickcissel Night Flight Call Monitoring
Dickcissels are small, songbirds that winter in Venezuela and breed in central North America. They make their migrations between these regions, mostly at night, giving short buzzy flight calls to maintain contact with one another in the darkness. Millions of Dickcissels fly across the Rio Grande River from Mexico into south Texas each spring. Automated acoustic recording stations located at high schools across the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas recorded the number of Dickcissel call notes over the schools at night every spring from 2000-2004. Monitoring continued at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in spring 2005.
What does a
Dickcissel flight call sound like?
Map of Dickcissel monitoring region
Spring 2000 Dickcissel monitoring
Spring 2001 Dickcissel monitoring
Spring 2002 Dickcissel monitoring
Spring 2003 Dickcissel monitoring
Spring 2004 Dickcissel monitoring
Spring 2005 Dickcissel monitoring
Dickcissel migration timing 2000-2005
