ML318219531
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 3
- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Several Pale-bellied Mourners are interacting in the savanna woodland en route to the small oxbow at 9:00am. I’m focused on the closest one. We didn’t ID the species at the time, just described the birds we saw interacting. Pale-bellied Mourner was not known from Venezuela at the time and hence not included in Hilty’s first edition. Back in the U.S., Jan Pierson, who knew the species from Suriname, identified it. Background included: a distant Ringed Woodpecker calling. 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!
Additional species
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
- 17.01 MB