ML318217371
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Our first encounter with this species; we heard several but didn’t see any and failed to ID the sound until we were back in the U.S. and Jan Pierson, who knew the bird from Suriname, identified my recording. The birds were in savanna woodland on the side road to the small lagoon at 8:20am. Digitized from tape, recorded with a Sony TCM5000, using a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic with foam windscreen and a K6 power module from Saul Mineroff Electronics.
Observation details
We had wonderful studies of a bird in the savanna woodland en route to the small lagoon. There were several of these birds interacting, but we saw only one really well. We were unprepared for this species and puzzled over the bird we encountered: It was "smallish for a Myiarchus, but with lots of rufous in the wings and tail; a small rounded head with a good-sized bill; pale yellowish wash on belly". We recorded its vocalizations and remained puzzled...until Jan Pierson identified the vocalizations as those of Pale-bellied Mourner, which, at the time, was thought to be a new bird for Venezuela. Another lifer for both of us!
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sony TCM5000
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic with foam windscreen
- Accessories
- a K6 power module from Saul Mineroff Electronic
- Original file size
- 6.41 MB