ML229982941
Yellow-breasted Chat x new world oriole sp. (hybrid) Icteria virens x Icterus sp.
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Natural song of an apparent Yellow-breasted Chat × Icterus sp. hybrid recorded by Curtis A. Marantz on 27 April 2020 along San Timoteo Creek at the San Timoteo Nature Sanctuary, Redlands, San Bernardino County, California. This bird was initially found by Matt Grube on 10 September 2019 and relocated by him on 25 April 2020 after returning following an absence over the winter (though apparently photographed the previous day and misidentified as a chat). When recorded at 7:34 am, the bird was on the north side of a riparian corridor dominated by willows and with a scrubby field to the north approximately 1.4 kilometers by trail northwest of the entrance gate along Alessandro Road. The bird was in the same place where it was at the end of the previous recording 18-20 meters away and about 15 meters up near the top of a willow along the north side of the riparian corridor overlooking the weedy field to the north that had mustard, fiddleneck, and other herbaceous plants about a meter in height. Bird was seen clearly while I was recording, and identification was confirmed immediately thereafter. Recording was made using the low-cut filters on both the MKH-20 and the recorder, but without the attenuators on either the microphone or recorder. Weather was clear, with a trace (5 knot) breeze from the northeast, and probably in the low 60s at this time, given that it was 53º on my arrival at the site an hour earlier.
Observation details
Continuing Yellow-breasted Chat x oriole found by Matt Grube. Similar to a chat, but with whitish wing bar, slightly longer/pointier bill, more muted pale supraloral, pale edges to tertials, dark-centered scapulars with olive edges, yellowish-green rump.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Nagra ARES-BB+
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH-20
- Accessories
- Roché 30” fiberglass parabola
- Original file size
- 28.6 MB