Red Crossbill in Big Stone County
2022-06-29

Five or fewer records in Big Stone County for the Summer season

I was surprised to hear and then see a female Red Crossbill fly by during a ten-minute grassland bird point count this morning near Victory WMA. I was able to obtain a recording of its flight calls, and the resulting audio spectrogram image included here shows the characteristic "lightning bolt" of Type 2, given near 1.8 and 2 seconds. The audio can be found here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S114066284

Robert M. Dunlap