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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
5:45 AM
Location
Las Minas de San Cristobal
Morazán, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: General climate: DRY; WITHIN A BACKGROUND OF BARRED ANTSHRIKES AND OTHER BIRDS CAN BE HEARDTHE LAST PART OF THE SONG OF A LESSER GROUND CUCKOO. ITS SONG STIMULATED A NEARBY BIRD ON WHICH I HAD THE MICROPHONE TRAINED IN HOPES OF THIS HAPPENING. I WAS ABLE TO RECORD THE ENTIRE SONG. THE SECOND EPISODEHAS A SIMILAR HISTORY. THE NEARBY BIRD WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN ITS TWO-NOTE CALL WHEN STIMULATED TO SING. AFTER THE SONG IT RESUMED THE CALLS. Sex: 1 UNKNOWN. Habitat: Scrub.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT IC
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 11 Sep 2008 - Jessie Barry