Contributor
William V. Ward Media from this contributor
Date
7:35 PM
Location
North Island; Rotorua; Lake Okataina
New Zealand
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: FIVE BIRDS SWIMMING, WHISLTING, PLAYING ABOUT IN THE WATER, OCCASIONALLY FLAPPING WINGS TO STAND UP IN WATER WHILE GIVING FEMALE'S 'QUACK'. A FLOCK OF 44, INCLUDING ABOUT 7 DUCKLINGS, WAS COUNTED ON THIS LAKE OF WHICH THE 5 RECORDED WERE A PAR 5 ADULT(S); MALE(S); FEMALE(S)T. Other Behaviors: Establish Flock Contact, Perform Visual Display. Habitat: Lake.
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA III
- Microphone
- Altec 688A
- Accessories
- Parabola 101.6cm/25.4cm (40in/10in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 15 Aug 2005 - Mike Andersen