Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 4; Adult, Unknown sex - 5
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Flying
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Quality of the video isn't top notch, but this is one of the best examples I have of this behavior. Multiple groups of Red-backed Fairy-wrens often come together or run into one another and it launches off into a intense courtship and singing battle. That's what you're seeing here. I so wish I would have kept recording from this angle. I switched it off at the end of this video and moved over for a more clear shot, then as soon as I was about to start recording again, a hawk or falcon flew over, all the birds dropped to the ground, and it was over. Doh! Almost positive that the bird in the middle of the fray, with the really white breast, is a superb fairy-wren. You can kind of see the brown lores around the eyes. Other Behaviors: Perform Courtship Display, Perch.
Additional species
Technical information
- Camera
- NIKON D610
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Nikon 300mm f/2.8 Lens; Nikon TC-20E III 2x Teleconverter
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 16 Jan 2016 - Joseph Welklin
- Digitized
- 27 Apr 2016 - Jay McGowan
- Edited
- 27 Apr 2016 - Jay McGowan