Four-banded Sandgrouse call ?

[RSN]

Hi

I have recorded this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynr-F-AqyY) video at the airstrip in Tendaba, Gambia in december.

I suspect that the rather highpitched and bouncy calls are the calls of Four-banded Sandgrouses (Pterocles quadricinctus) coming to drink at dusk...

So I would like to hear from e.g. experienced Africa-travellers if I am correct that it is Four-banded Sandgrouses?

Best wishes, Rune Sø Neergaard, Denmark

[Steve Keen]

Sounds good to me (although it's a long time since I last heard 4-b S!).

[Brian S]

Definitely Four-banded - just back from the Gambia, where I saw many coming in to drink near Kwinella/Tendaba in the evening, often uttering this call.

Brian S

[Seedy Saidy]

Also agreed with the above ID's.

4BS are common in the Gambia and can be seen throughout and around the country. Although they are hard to be seen during day light as they hide away but very active late evenings just before dusk.
Around the edges of harvested peanut or coos farms, bordering wood or grass lands are good sites to flush to see them in day light.
Yundum water hole near the coastal area and Selite over the border at Giboroh are good sites too.

Seedy Gambian birder.