ML237768481
Contributor
Date
Location
- 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