Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: Background: DEROPTYUS ACCIPITRINUS (GULL-LIKE CA; Range status: NORMAL; Breeding status: TERRITORIAL PAIRED; Frequency of sound: NORMAL; General climate: WET; Cover density: THICK; BIRD WAS SINGING FROM THICK BRUSH BORDERING A GRANITE OUTCROP. BIRD RAPIDLY VIBRATED TAIL UP AND DOWN AS IT CALLED. SONG IS A CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF THE DAWN CHORUS. Subspecies information provided by Isler, Isler, and Whitney as part of their study on species limits in the T. punctatus complex (see Isler et al. 1997). The "How Identified" and "Confidence in Identification" values pertain to the recordist's original identification without subspecies name. -Matt Medler, 16 December 2009. ML: Subject changed from recordist's original identification of Thamnophilus punctatus punctatus to Thamnophilus punctatus punctatus/interpositus to conform to eBird Taxonomy (v. 1.55). -Jay McGowan/Matt Medler, July 2015. Other Behaviors: Advertise, Perform Visual Display. Habitat: Rainforest.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4200
- Microphone
- Dan Gibson unspecified model
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 29 Jan 2009 - David McCartt