Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 45
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Foraging or eating
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
NOTES: Background: EOLOPHUS ROSEICAPILLUS (FLOCK CALLS); Weather: WIND; A SOMEWHAT STUTTERING CALL, APPARENTLY TO KEEP THE FLOCK TOGETHER. A BIRD WHICH HAD JUST ALIGHTED WOULD RAISE ITS CREST AND CALL. BIRDS WERE FEEDING ON THE GROUND, SITTING ON FENCE POSTS OR WIRE FENCES, FLYINGUP INTO LOW TREES, ETC. THE BIRDS DID NOT SEEM INTERESTED IN PLAYBACK, EVEN THOUGH CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR IT CLEARLY. NOT PARTICULARLY SHY, EVEN THOUGH AN OUTSTANDINGLY ATTRACTIVE BIRD AND ONE WHICH HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN GREAT NUMBERS OVER THE YEARS. GRASSY FIELD BORDERED WITH MALLEE(DWARF EUCALYPTUS TREES). LATE AFTERNOON. 45 ADULT(S). Sound stimulation was (other): PLAYBACK. Response to playback: No response. Other Behaviors: Establish Flock Contact, Perform Visual Display. Habitat: Edge.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA III
- Microphone
- AKG 200
- Accessories
- Parabola 61cm/20.3cm (24in/8in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 6 Sep 2011 - Jay McGowan