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ML113426
Brewer's Blackbird x Great-tailed Grackle (hybrid) Euphagus cyanocephalus x Quiscalus mexicanus
Contributor
Curtis Marantz Media from this contributor
Date
5:06 PM
Location
Santa Maria, Preisker Park
Santa Barbara, California, 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: Apparent hybrid between Euphagus cyanocephalus and Quiscalus mexicanus. A male that was at the time chasing female Euphagus cyanocephalus and displaying to them with body puffed out, wings drooped, and tail fanned. Recorded in a city park in a generally grassy situation with scattered trees. Bird was on rocks at edge of small, artificial stream. Almost completely clear but hazy, 25+ knot breeze from NW, upper 60s to low 70s. First two songs overloaded. Other Behaviors: Advertise, Court. Habitat: Park/Campus/Cemetery, Creek, Suburban.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA IV-D
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME 64
- Accessories
- Roche Parabola 74cm/17.7cm (29.1in/7in)
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 25 Nov 2002 - Curtis Marantz
- Digitized
- 25 Nov 2002 - Martha Fischer
- Edited
- 25 Nov 2002 - Martha Fischer