DRUMMING

Drumming

Drumming is a sound produced by snipe as part of their courtship display flights. The sound is produced mechanically by the vibration of the modified outer tail feathers, held out at a wide angle to the body, in the slipstream of a power dive. The display is usually crepuscular, or given throughout moonlit nights. The behaviour is generally characteristic of the genera Coenocorypha, Gallinago and Lymnocryptes. Sounds made by the closely related woodcocks in the course of their 'roding' display flights may be homologous to drumming.

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drumming

Noun

drumming

  1. The act of beating a drum.

Verb

drumming



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