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ML135943

Tristram's Starling Onychognathus tristramii

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Contributor

Linda Macaulay Media from this contributor Profile

Date

15 Mar 2005 5:00 PM eBird checklist S38793562

Location

Sinai Peninsula; Saint Catherine's Monastery
Egypt
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Age and sex
Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
Behaviors
Courtship, display, or copulation
Sounds
Call
Playback
Playback not used

Media notes

NOTES: a pair with one in a tree and one on the side of the monastery wall on a high window with bars, they go into holes in the walls of the building for the night, male came back out in response to playback but female stayed in wall. Response to playback: Approach. Response to playback: Different song. Other Behaviors: Mate.

Technical information

Recorder
SONY TC-D5 PRO II
Microphone
Sennheiser MKH 60
Accessories

Archival information

Cataloged
16 Oct 2007 - Martha Fischer
Digitized
16 Oct 2007 - Martha Fischer
Edited
16 Oct 2007 - Martha Fischer

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