ML179576941
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - 19
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
Long recording of many different cuts over the course of about an hour of different parts of a flock of 19 individuals mixed with primarily Lesser Yellowegs, which are also prominent in several of the sections. Dowitchers mostly giving typical "peek" calls, but also lower conversational calls as the groups foraged. Some playback to elicit responses in early cuts, focused mostly on three individuals, but then later cuts of a larger part of the flock essentially natural. At 4:13, most of the group took flight, possibly in response to my presence, although they ignored me otherwise. Best sections probably from about 8:00 to 16:50. Lots of hiss from wind in nearby cottonwoods mars most of the recording, despite close proximity to the birds throughout.
Observation details
19 at Solitary Channel, recorded. 3 at Benning.
Additional species
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) Colaptes auratus auratus/luteus
- Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) Melospiza melodia melodia/atlantica
- Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sound Devices MixPre-3 II
- Microphone
- Wildtronics Pro Mono Parabolic Microphone
- Accessories
- Wildtronics 22" Parabola
- Original file size
- 224.17 MB