Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
NOTES: Weather: WIND; 'CHIP, CHIP, CHIP, CHIP', MANY TIMES. ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE A WARNING CALL OF THE BELLBIRD. BIRD FLEW ABOUT IN TREES. NO RESPONSE TO A SINGLEPLAYBACK ATTEMPT. A CANYON, WITH STEEP HILLSIDES,COVERED WITH SCRUB AND A FEW TALL TREES. THERE WERE THREE BIRDS, 2 MALES AND 1 FEMALE, WITH FEATHERS PUFFED OUT SO THEY LOOKED LIKE ROUND BLACK BALLS, OBSERVED IN THE THIS LOCATION 3 DAYS PRIOR. THEY WERE MAKING THIS NOISE AND HOPPING ABOUT THE FEMALE IN WHAT THE OBSERVERS, F. BOYCE AND MRS. PERRINEMONCRIEFF, THOUGHT WAS AN OFF-SEASON MATING DISPLAY. ON THIS OCCASIONTHE BIRDS WERE HEARD AND TAPED, BUT NOT SEEN. UPON HEARING THE RECORDING NEWTON MCCONOCHIE STATED THAT HE OFTEN HEARD THIS CALL IN THE FALL, ESPECIALLY IN APRIL, AND IT IS A TUI. 1 MALE. Sound stimulation was (other): PLAYBACK. Response to playback: No response. Other Behaviors: Emit Alarm. Habitat: Scrub, Canyon.
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA III
- Microphone
- Altec 688A
- Accessories
- Parabola 101.6cm/25.4cm (40in/10in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 21 Sep 2011 - Jay McGowan