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Contributor
William V. Ward Media from this contributor
Date
2:27 PM
Location
Kermadec Islands; Raoul Island; Northwest Denham Bay
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
- Specimen
- Specimen collected
Media notes
NOTES: SEVERAL BIRDS. THIS CUT WAS MADE FROM A BLIND WHERE THE BIRDS COULD NOT SEE ME. SOUNDS: THE TYPICAL 'ER-WIDE-AH' CALL CONTINUOUSLY REPEATED THROUGHOUT THE COLONY; ONE WARNING 'GERR-UK' CALL DIRECTED AT ANOTHER BIRD; ONE 'WIDEAWAKE' CALL; AND A CLUCKING SOUND WHICH MAY BE A COMMUNICATIVE SOUND BETWEEN MATES OR BETWEEN PARENT AND CHICK. SPECIMEN COLLECTED BY D. V. MERTON AND LOCATED AT THE DOMINION MUSEUM. Other Behaviors: Incubate, Emit Alarm, Mate, Social Context: Colony. Habitat: Bay/Harbor.
Technical information
- Recorder
- MAGNEMITE 610E
- Microphone
- Accessories
Archival information
- Digitized
- 7 Nov 2000 - Martha Fischer