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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
5:30 PM
Location
Hacienda Los Pinos
Usulután, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 2
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
NOTES: Weather: WIND; A PRESUMED MALE WAS PRESENTING HIS IRREGULAR LITTLE SONG AT SUNDOWN. A SECOND SALTATOR, POSSIBLY A FEMALE, WAS FORAGING IN AND AROUND THE SAME TREE. I THEN PLAYED BACK THE SONG AND BOTH BIRDS FLEW EXCITEDLY BACK AND FORTH ABOVE THE RECORDER. THEN ONE RESUMED THE SONG WITH MORE AGITATION AND THE OTHER, STILL WITH IT, INTERJECTED THE CALLS WHICH GIVE THE BIRD ITS LOCAL NAME 'DICHOSO FUI' (HAPPY WAS I). A DRYPASTURE WITHSCRUBBY TREES ALONG DRY WATERCOURSES. 2 ADULT(S); MALE; FEMALE?. Response to playback: Approach. Response to playback: Different song. Habitat: Park/Campus/Cemetery.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000L
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 16 Jun 2011 - Jay McGowan