Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: (Background Sounds: wind; Species Sound: frequent; Breeding Status: not territorial, not breeding; Behavioral Context: mate contact?, parent-young contact?; General Climate: arid; Cover Density: sparse; Strata in Habitat: song perch) Several Say's Phoebes, apparently a family, were foraging in the sagebrush in this area. The taped remark "Western Kingbird" was an error in initial identification. [Although this is certainly a flycatcher and it is possible that it is Sayornis saya, these vocalizations sound nothing like anything I have ever knowingly heard from this species, nor do they resemble in the slightest any of the spectrograms I have available for this species (including those in Smith, W. J. 1970. Behaviour 37: 64-84, 85-112). The series at 0:11 has an Empidonax-like quality to it, but I cannot identify the regularly repeated calls that seem to be associated with this series [??] Quality 2-3 (not much signal and a bit of wind noise) - CAM - 4 April 2005]. Other Behaviors: Perform Visual Display, Social Context: Family. Habitat: Chaparral, Scrub, Rocky.
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA IV-D
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 404
- Accessories
- Parabola 91.4cm/30.5cm (36in/12in)
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 12 Feb 2001 - Nancy Schrempf
- Digitized
- 23 Jan 2001 - Matthew D. Medler
- Edited
- 22 Jan 2001 - Matthew D. Medler