ML232388341
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 2
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
First heard some loud thrush calls at 11:45 in a Florida Privet/Gumbo Limbo patch at the eastern edge of the campground. When I got closer the calls initially stopped, but then two birds starting softly singing classic Bicknell's Thrush songs! For about the next forty minutes both birds were incessantly singing and calling. At one point I tried playback and had one of the birds aggressively come out towards me allowing for two poor photos before he saw me and flushed. By the time I left around 1:20 the birds were heard/seen sporadically by a small crowd of birders. I got a decent recording below including numerous call notes and songs, which are diagnostic for BITH. Separating BITH from GCTH on the basis of plumage/morphology in the field is virtually impossible, but the one bird I saw well did exhibit features *typically* more consistent with BITH than GCTH. The black on the lower mandible is restricted to the tip, whereas GCTH would show it extending further down. Although not apparent in these over-exposed photographs, the bird had richer brown tones on the wings/tail consistent with BITH. The plainer cheek is also ostensibly a characteristic of BITH. Of course, the recording confirms the ID as BITH, but these plumage details nonetheless serve as weak corroborating evidence. Photos/recording below. Lifer!
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone 7
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 686.83 KB