Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 3; Immature Unknown sex - 3
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: (Social Contact: Flock?; Breeding Status: Not Territorial, Not Breeding; Behav. Context: enticing young to forage -go fishing; Sound Delivery Rate: High; Visual Display: Yes; General Climate: Humid; Weather: haze; Temperature: hot) One (two?) adults returned to group on sandspit, with minnows in bill. Flew low over the young ones and swooped up, as if to invite or order them to come fishing. They did not feed the young, who were calling vigorously. Parent uttered harsh gutteral calls when low overhead -at end, the young took to the air and all flew over the cut, looking for minnows. LNS Note: Unbroken cut with handling noise gain change. JN 9Aug2005. Other Behaviors: Establish Parent Young Contact, Social Context: Family. Habitat: Marine, Brackish Shoreline, Beach, Island, Spit.
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT L
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME 88
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 13 Dec 2000 - Marilyn Moskal
- Digitized
- 9 Aug 2005 - James Napoli
- Edited
- 18 Aug 1988 - William Evans