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pee’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’ew.
Voice :
Song a loud, ringing, rapid, descending series of puttering notes: “pee’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’i’ew.”
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from descriptions of the Gray-Winged and Pale-Winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans and Psophia leucoptera, respectively), and the Streak-Headed Woodcreeper (Lepidocalaptes souleyetii)
in Thomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O’Neill, and Theodore A. Parker III, Birds of Peru (Revised and updated edition, 2010) : 118
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some other appearances of puttering in the same volume —
a puttering series ending in a quack
a series of puttering hoots
a deep booming series of rolling and puttering notes
and deeper puttering sounds
a quiet puttering sound
a mechanical, ringing, puttering series
a rapid puttering series that accelerates, then slows
a musical, rising-falling, rapid puttering rattle
a rapid puttering chatter
a descending, puttering, chatter
a loud, musical, puttering rattle
squeaky, puttering notes
a thin, puttering, metallic rattle
also a bisyllabic squeaky phrase 376