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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
8:00 AM
Location
ZAPOTITAN
La Libertad, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Call; Non-vocal
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: DRAINED SWAMPLAND CONVERTED TO PASTURE. OCCASIONAL LARGE TREES. PAIR OF GRACKLES IN TREE WHERE FENMALE WAS BUILDING NEST. FEMALE CAME AND WENT BUT MALE LEFT ONLY ONCE AND THAT BRIEFLY. MALE SAT SILENTLY FOR LONG PERIODS UTTERING ONLY AN OCCASI 1 MALE(S); 1 FEMALE(S)ONAL CROAK. HARSH CHATTER MAY BE FROM FEMALE OR MALE. VARIOUS HIGH-PITCHED NOTES MADE BY MALE DURING DISPLAY (NECK STRETCHED FORWARD; WINGS DROOPING AND QUIVERING). Other Behaviors: Court, Perform Visual Display.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000L
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 24 Feb 2005 - Mike Andersen