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ML105727

Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum

Report

Contributor

Geoffrey A. Keller Media from this contributor

Date

5 May 1996 8:00 AM

Location

Avon Park; Avon Park Bombing Range
Polk, Florida, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Age and sex
Adult Male - 1
Behaviors
Courtship, display, or copulation
Sounds
Song
Playback
Playback not used

Media notes

NOTES: song from conspicuous perch on dead shrub in meadow with scattered Saw Palmetto BNA: Primary Song ("tsick, tsick, tsurrrrrrr" or "tip-tup-a-zeeeeeee") is heard. CZ 02/06/2004. [Twenty-three examples of the Primary Song of BNA. Quality changed from "G to E" to 2, 1-2 (the five BEST songs are at 1:58-2:53) - CAM - 20 April 1005]. Other Behaviors: Court, Advertise. Habitat: Grassland.

Additional species

  • Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
  • Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
  • Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
  • American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
  • Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
  • Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
  • Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
  • Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo altiloquus

Technical information

Recorder
UHER 4200 REPORT MONITOR
Microphone
Sennheiser MKH 106T
Accessories
Roche Parabola 74cm/17.7cm (29.1in/7in)

Archival information

Digitized
11 Dec 2000 - Matthew D. Medler
Edited
11 Dec 2000 - Matthew D. Medler

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