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| Boat-tailed Grackles, male Cheesequake Creek,
Shoreline Drive, Lawrence Harbor, New Jersey, 9:00 a.m. 6/12/04 (126kb)
with Marsh Wren, Song Sparrow and Red-winged Blackbirds.
Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Mallards and Willets were also
present. The male Grackles tended to jump into a large bush
near the mud walls of the Creek similar to the Audubon
illustration to the left. |
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| Cheesequake Creek,
Shoreline Drive, Lawrence Harbor, New Jersey, 9:00 a.m. 6/12/04 (24kb).
Male making buzzy sound, pausing for a moment to clap
its upper and lower beak together and then continuing to
buzz. |
wave814 |
| Female Boat-tailed Grackles, Cheesequake Creek,
Shoreline Drive, Lawrence Harbor, New Jersey, 9:00 a.m. 6/12/04 (15kb),
clucks. Females, sometimes in a group, were walking up and
down muddy edges of Creek looking for bugs and Fiddler Crabs and
peering into mud walls where nests may have been located. |
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