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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
8:30 AM
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; Non-vocal
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: A COW DIED AND IMMEDIATELY THE BLACK VULTURES GATHERED, SOMETIMES OVER 100. ON THIS DAY, THE SECOND, THE VULTURES HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO TEARTHE TOUGH HIDE. THEY HAD TO WAIT UNTIL DOGS, FLIES, AND BACTERIA MADETHE INSIDES AVAILABLE. THE FIRST EPISODE RECORDED HERE WAS MADE WHILEA DOZEN BIRDS WERE GATHERED ABOUT THE CARCASS.THE SECOND AND LONGER WAS WHILE 23 BIRDS PERCHED IN A NEARBY DEAD TREE. MOST OF THE SOUNDS ARE QUILL RATTLING, WING FLAPPING, AND CLAW SCRAPING ON BARK. THE SOFT WUFF I BELIEVE TO BE A VOCALIZATION MADE WHEN CROWDED BY ANOTHER BIRD OR WHEN TAKING OFF. PASTURE WITH STREAM BORDERED BY TREES. Sex: 12-23 UNKNOWN. Habitat: Park/Campus/Cemetery, Creek.
Additional species
- Cattle (Domestic type) Bos taurus (Domestic type)
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT IC
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 25 Sep 2002 - Sarah Benson-Amram