ML104948681
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Male - X
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
I would write the song as "De do see a loo" most of the time, and occasionally "Seeoowe se do se do." Not as jumbled as WEME, higher pitched than WEME but not as much so as nominate subspecies group. I spent a goodly 30-40 minutes at the proper pull off for this bird. I heard it whenever the traffic cleared enough. At one point, I was surprised to see it fly close enough that I could actually make out some marks. The dark and light striping on the head was more contrasting than in any of the WEME nearby, but not quite as dramatic as in Sm magna. The auriculars were not stunning white, but dusky -- in overlap zone between lilianae group and Western Meadowlark from what I can see in Macaulay. The throat was yellow and the malar white, contrasting with both auriculars and throat. I could see no intrusion of yellow onto throat. The belly was yellow but the sides were white with dark streaking from shoulder area to legs. WEMEs seemed to lack streaking (more like elongated spots) or have streaking only lower, near legs, but not near chest.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 7
- Microphone
- standard
- Accessories
- none
- Original file size
- 36.41 KB