№ 184
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus
English miners took the Seven Whistlers as a warning of disaster, and the whimbrel, with its run of about seven whistles, was among the birds blamed. Each spring it reaches northern Australia from the Arctic.
Photo · sunnyjosef · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.
Call · Nigel Jackett · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.