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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
7:30 AM
Location
CERRO VERDE
Santa Ana, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: CLOUDFOREST LOPPED OFF AT 4M TO PROVIDE A VIEW. ALTHOUGH I HAD KNOWN THAT FEMALES OF THIS SPECIES UTTER A PLAINTIVE CRY WHEN THEIR NESTS OR YOUNG ARE THREATENED I ONLY SUSPECTED THAT MALES UTTERED THE SAME CRY. THIS MORNING I WAS ABLE TO IDENT 1 ADULT(S); MALE(S)?IFY A MALE BIRD CRYING BY ITS CLEAR ORANGE BILL. LATER THE BIRD SANG THUS CONFIRMING MY IDENTIFICATION (ASSUMING THAT ONLY MALES SING AND HAVE CLEAR ORANGE BILLS) - W.A. THURBER. FIELD GUIDES DO NOT SHOW SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN THIS SPECIES - LNS. Other Behaviors: Advertise, Emit Alarm.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000L
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 31 May 2011 - Jay McGowan