ML301545501
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Media notes
Split stereo recording of a single song. This file plays the song once from one mic of the recorder and then the same song as recorded from the other mic.
Observation details
Heard singing once, from in or immediately west of the Cabbage Palm at 27.9379, -80.4981. Song was very faint behind the wind noise, but it struck me as either a Zonotrichia sparrow or a meadowlark. Fortunately my recorder picked it up better than my ears did. The long introductory whistle in the 5-6 kHz range is characteristic of GCSP. The only other local species I can think of that would give a song similar to this are Eastern Meadowlark and Brown-headed Cowbird. I feel like EAME can be eliminated pretty readily by habitat (dense shrubs with scattered small trees). Plus, there are no eBird records of EAME in this state park (presumably due to the inappropriate habitat). The tone of the song seemed too thin and plaintive for BHCO, which typically gives a strong forceful whistle. Plus, it's difficult to imagine that a bold, open-foraging species like BHCO would have gone unseen during the entire ~70 minutes that I was there, during which time at least one birder was continuously present at the location.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 508.02 KB