ML313310541
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1; Juvenile, Unknown sex - 2
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Feeding young
- Sounds
- Flight call; Flight song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
At 10:39am, both adults showed up, coming to the nest briefly, the male carrying a Cliff Chipmunk, which it transferred to the female, who then offered it to the young. She pulls pieces of the prey apart and feeds both juveniles before flying away. There was still screaming in the distance at 10:44am, but I couldn’t view the adults anymore. Recorded with a Sony TCM5000, using a Sennheiser ME67 covered with a foam windscreen.
Observation details
Assisting Noel Snyder with documenting behavior at the first known nesting of Short-tailed Hawk in Arizona, I watched, recorded, and videoed Short-tailed Hawks at a nest, from a blind we had built in a pine tree well away, but where the nest was visible. I add the recordings here. It was a clear, relatively calm morning in the upper Chiricahuas, but it got windy by midday. Though these recordings involved the same set of 2 adults and 2 juveniles, I will load them separately in the order in which I recorded them.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sony TCM5000
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME67
- Accessories
- a foam windscreen
- Original file size
- 7.91 MB