[Birdtalk] Possible Snow Bunting at AIC Yesterday

[Kristin Purdy]

Yesterday morning at the big bridge on Antelope Island's causeway, I saw a 
small (Horned Lark-American Pipit size) bird flying away from my party and 
toward the west. I saw very little of the bird except that it had 
significant white/black in the wings and the body showed considerable white. 
It did call, however, which sounded like a musical stutter.

I've been listening to recordings from Cornell's Macaulay's Library of 
Natural Sounds this afternoon, and now believe this bird was a Snow Bunting. 
The National Geographic Guide describes one call as a musical rattle or 
twitter and Sibley describes one call as a soft musical rattle. I believe 
that's what I heard.

Kris