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Podcast: A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI
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Yellowlegs and the Perpetual-Motion Toy Bird
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:03:54
Publish Date: 2018-05-29 07:35:00
Description: The other day, crossing Uncle Tim’s Bridge, I saw a flock of fourteen yellowlegs feeding in the gray slurry of the mud flats of Duck Creek at low tide. Greater and lesser yellowlegs are two of our most readily- identifiable local shorebirds. They are by far the largest of the sandpipers, with stilt-like bright yellow shanks that give them their common name. Their call is an unmistakable three-note descending whistle: CHOO-choo-choo, CHOO-choo-choo.
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