Walk the trail just before dusk, listening for the unmistakable "peent" call coming from the male Woodcocks.— News from www.thesunchronicle.com
That peent was followed by another, then many many more.— 10,000 Birds
Mounting by easy stages of half a dozen rapid strokes, catching flies by the way, and crying _peent-peent_, the acrobat climbs until I look a mere lump on the roof; then ceasing his whimpering _peent_, he turns on bowed wings and falls -- shoots roofward with fearful speed.— Roof and Meadow
_peent!— The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
_ _peent!— The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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