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Location

Sleepy Creek WMA, Sleepy Creek road 2.1 mile west of ranger station at last hairpin turn before the top of Third Hill Mtn
Berkeley, West Virginia, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 39.511766, -78.138182
Age and sex
Adult Male - 1; Adult, Unknown sex - 1
Behaviors
Courtship, display, or copulation
Sounds
Call; Song
Playback
Playback not used

Media notes

Behavior and other notes: Adult male Eastern Whip-poor-will singing from the road. A conspecific flies in at 11:56 and he changes to the growl-cluck call. The other bird gives some very quiet, throaty calls starting at 12:01. At 13:21 one of the birds gives whit calls and it or the other birds also gives other calls. Recording Time: 0452 (UTC -4). Temperature 14C. Habitat: mixed deciduous woods. Distance to sound source: 10-11 meters. Specific location: Sleepy Creek WMA, high hairpin, Berkeley Co., WV. Latitude 39.511825, Longitude -78.138204. Elevation 488 meters. ID’d by sight and sound; ID confidence 100%. Equipment notes: Stereo, recorder HPF on at 80Hz, -18dB/octave.

Observation details

4 singing males. 1 non-singing individual visiting a singing male.

Technical information

Recorder
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Microphone
Telinga Pro 7 stereo DAT mic
Accessories
Telinga 57cm parabola
Original file size
238.54 MB