ID by song (1 Viewer)

I saw 3 of these birds tonight in southern california in a parking lot literally running around on the pavement looking for food. They kept crying out to eachother and appeared to have fairly long legs. The sun had just finnished setting so i couldn't see any colors on them and the picture i took is really dark but may help as a sillouette, i'm not sure at all but i think they were mostly white colored. I managed to capture them singing with my camera's video mode and converted the audio to mp3. Can anyone tell what kinda bird they are? http://rtfm.insomnia.org/~gt3/what-bird.mp3

Hi Rkulla,

Your birds are Killdeer. They get pretty active after dark.

Chris

Chris Benesh said:

Hi Rkulla,

Your birds are Killdeer. They get pretty active after dark.

Chris

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You're right! That's so cool because the whole time i was looking at them i was thinking 'plover' even though i've never seen a plover except in my field guide and on tv, and I doubted why a plover would be in a parking lot and at night time. Thanks