Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - X
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Recorded at 9:48am. The recording begins with a Curve-billed Thrasher singing from the middle/upper half of a mesquite tree. Around 30 seconds, a PHAI is chased around the same tree by a NOMO. Not especially affected, the thrasher continues to sing. A second thrasher begins singing behind me, not in the focus of the parabola. The 2nd CBTH behind me slowly moves closer, occasionally singing. At 2:30 the second CBTH flies into the same mesquite tree as the first and you can hear both birds quietly and not-so-quietly singing to each other. At this point it seemed the two were a pair, and the second CBTH could be female. At 3:00 they flew out of the tree together to forage on the ground together. 3:39 begins a second recording of the same pair foraging together on the bank of a small wash occasionally knocking down pebbles while making very quiet vocalizations. I was about 5-10 meters away from the pair in both recordings. I could be mistaken on the sexes of each CBTH, but the first singing CBTH sang more prominently and forcefully, more typical of a male, while the second CBTH sang intermittently as it approached, something I would assume to be more typically female but they were equally vocally adept. A nice interaction to witness and record. 658hz high pass 20db rolloff Normalized to -3db on first recording, normalized to -7db on second Background Species: PHAI, ANHU, GIWO, VERD female bird song
Technical information
- Recorder
- Zoom H5
- Microphone
- Telinga MK2
- Accessories
- Telinga 22" Parabola
- Original file size
- 218.44 MB