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Kansabirdguy
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I’m in Montana in the Helena area and heard this empid on a road through the pines on a mountain outside town
Minimal recording but I also heard it doing a whit type call note so wondering is this a dusky or something else
https://ebird.org/checklist/S358072770
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If the same bird making that call was whitting, it's a Dusky
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Slim chance they were separate birds but I don’t think so
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Went back today and found a singing dusky and two westerns
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