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ML20930

Melodious Blackbird Dives dives

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Contributor

Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor

Date

9 May 1975 6:00 AM

Location

Hacienda Los Pinos
Usulután, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 13.3333333, -88.6666667
Age and sex
Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
Behaviors
Courtship, display, or copulation
Sounds
Call
Playback
Not specified

Media notes

NOTES: THIS PAIR WAS BUILDING A NEST. MOST OF THE CALLS WERE GIVEN AFTER ONEADDED TO THE NEST STRUCTURE, AND THE OTHER MIGHT THEN RESPOND. LARGE TREES AND BRUSH ALONG A STREAM IN A PASTURE. Other Behaviors: Mate. Habitat: Park/Campus/Cemetery, Creek.

Additional species

  • Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
  • Northern Jacana Jacana spinosa
  • Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
  • Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

Technical information

Recorder
UHER 4000 REPORT IC
Microphone
Accessories
Parabola 45.7cm (18in)

Archival information

Digitized
24 Feb 2009 - David McCartt

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