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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
7:30 AM
Location
Las Minas de San Cristobal
Morazán, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
A JAY CARRYING FOOD (A NUT?) LANDED ALMOST OVER ME IN A SMALL TREE. AT FIRST THE JAY UTTERED FAIRLY SOFT CONVERSATIONAL NOTES WHILE FEEDING- PERHAPS MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH OTHERS200M AWAY. THEN IT BEGAN PREENING, WIPING ITS BILL, AND CLEANING ITS TOES (SILENCE ON TAPE). SUDDENLY THE JAY SAW ME AND SCREAMED BUT DID NOT LEAVE. A PAIR OF MYIODYNASTES LUTEIVENTRIS BEGAN ATTACKING THE EXPOSED JAY. THEIR SOFT TWITTERS AND FLUTTER OF WINGS MARK THEIR ATTACKS. AFTER AN ESPECIALLY VICIOUS ATTACK (LOUDER NOTES) THE JAY LEFT (WING FLUTTER). 1 ADULT(S); Sex: UNKNOWN. Habitat: Scrub.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT IC
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 12 May 2009 - Ashik Rahaman