Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Foraging or eating
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
NOTES: General climate: CYCLIC WET-DRY; TINKLING BELL-LIKE SOUND, ALMOST 'A RING OF BELLS'. BIRDS WOULD PAUSEIN THEIR SEARCHING ABOUT IN THE TREETOPSAND VOCALIZE -THERE WAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MOVEMENT - BOBBING WOULD NOT BE QUITE RIGHT - UP AND DOWN OF THE BODY. REACTED VERY STRONGLY TO PLAYBACK, CAME DOWN IMMEDIATELY TO WHERE I WAS WITH THE RECORDER. THEY CAME QUITE LOW DOWN THE TREE, TO THE BUSH OVER MY HEAD. FINALLY THEY FOLLOWED ME DOWN THE PATH FOR150YDS. OR MORE. EACH TIME AFTER I PAUSED, AND THEN PLAYED BACK, SO THEY WOULD APPEAR AND ANSWER. MID-MORNING. END OF DRY SEASON. MALE(S); FEMALE(S). Sound stimulation was (other): PLAYBACK. Response to playback: Approach. Response to playback: Normal song. Other Behaviors: Perform Visual Display. Habitat: Forest.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000L
- Microphone
- Grampian DP6
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 23 Oct 2001 - Lauren A. Serafin