Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 3
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
Three cuts of Yellow-crowned Manakins calling and then singing from song perches in the savanna woodland on white sand along the beginning of the trail to the small oxbow. This was between 10:30-10:45am. There were multiple males (and one female) in the area here, and each cut could have been a different male or males—at first chasing a bit; then a male flew in nearby and called several times (without doing his full song); in the third cut, a male landed on a nearby song perch about 15’ up, gave several call notes, and then did his full song several times at long intervals. He really bellows it out—sort of piha-like, with his mouth wide open, exposing his tongue, and his head tilted back a bit. 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 fabulous studies, 10:30-11:00am, of some 13-15 males and one female at what seems to be a lekking area--they were chasing and making some incredible vocalizations (recordings). A fabulous lifer for the Grebe!
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
- 52.1 MB