ML182766831
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Recording by Curtis A. Marantz uploaded here as a placeholder until he can add this to his account. This is the Brown Shrike recorded yesterday, 4 January 2011, and continuing from 21 November 2010. Yesterday, from a distance and through the scope, I could see the throat fluttering as if the bird was singing. Curtis was then able to zero-in on the bird and confirm from a distance that the bird was singing. Today, we got much closer. In this recording, the bird was 61 meters away (paced) and perched on a bare branch near the top of a 2 meter tall bush (the bird about 1.75 meters above the ground). It was singing with both feet on the perch, whereas yesterday it sang mostly on one foot. Ending time of this recording was 08:33 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. This is the same area at Clam Beach, McKinleyville, Humboldt County, California where the bird was seen yesterday, between two lakes and in a partially flooded area behind fore-dunes. This low area has scrub and grass. Weather: high thin clouds, partly cloudy, calm but with loud surf noise in background, temperature in the mid to upper 40s F.
Observation details
Singing; we again photographed and recorded songs by the continuing bird that has been present since first found here on 21 November 2010 by Gary and Lauren Lester. This is presumably a bird in its first winter and appears to be nominate L. c. cristatus
Technical information
- Recorder
- Nagra ARES-BB+
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH-20
- Accessories
- Roché 30" fiberglass parabola
- Original file size
- 38.38 MB