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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
3:15 PM
Location
Hacienda Los Pinos
Usulután, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: Weather: WIND; A VARIABLE NUMBER OF THESE PARAKEETS WERE PERCHED IN A LEAFLESS 'MURMUL' TREE, SOMETIMES CALLED LOCALLY A CEIBA BUT WHICH IS NOT THE COMMONCEIBA. SOME OF THE PARAKEETS WERE ALMOST MOTIONLESS, OTHERS WERE AVIDLY EATING THE GREEN, ORANGE-SIZED FRUITS. FROM TIME TO TIME A FEW PARAKEETS LEFT, LATER OTHERS CAME. AT ONE TIME I COUNTED 15 INDIVIDUALS INSIGHT. SEVERAL TYPES OF VOCALIZATIONS CAN BE DISTINGUISHED: FAIRLY COMMON ARE SOME HOARSE NOTES; FROM TIME TO TIME ARE SHARP CALLS. I COULDNOT DETERMINE WHICH BIRDS PRODUCED THE DIFFERENT TYPES. 'MURMUL' TREEBY SIDE OF STREAM. Sex: 10-15 UNKNOWN. Habitat: Creek.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT IC
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 13 Oct 2009 - Jessie Barry