Contributor
Alvin Carpenter Media from this contributor
Margery R. Plymire Media from this contributor
Date
11:00 AM
Location
Portal; Round Mountain Wash
Arizona, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: (No. of Animals/Sex: 1-2 adults, male, female. Breeding Status: Territorial paired? Gen. Climate: Dry. Cover Density: Sparse.) Pair feeding, maintaining contact. One (or both) birds calling--more likely one. Birds stayed quite close together and loud chip note was given whenever one bird moved farther away. Average distance between the two was about 2 m. BNA: Call Notes are heard (chip). CZ 18/03/2004. [These are the contact calls that one often hears from this species (not including the sharp "churp," which was not given by this species - though I'm not sure what it was given by (maybe Picoides scalaris?)). Quality changed from 3 to 3-2 - CAM - 9 February 2005]. Habitat: Deciduous Forest, Desert, Scrub.
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA III
- Microphone
- Dan Gibson unspecified model
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 7 Dec 2001 - Annette Nadeau
- Digitized
- 18 Mar 2004 - Claudia Zan
- Edited
- 5 Jan 1983 - Steve Greenspun