ML429566301
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
recorded at 841 am.
Observation details
Bird was singing across the channel from mid-southern end of trail along water's edge (therefore not able to get any closer to signal source), and boat noise was unavoidable. ID confidence is 97%, despite that in 5 years of recording in the month of June on Schoodic Peninsula, I have not heard this bird before. ID was first generated in BirdNet, then I looked at & listened to examples in Pieplow's Peterson Field Guide to Birds of ENA, and then other recordings in ML. Pieplow states that "the 3-part song of the RCKI consists of "A) Accelerating series of very high whistles, B) Lower, accelerating couplet series, C) Clear loud whistled couplet or triplet series sometimes ending on a high note. He states: Any of the 3 sections of Song sometimes given separately. Pieplow's descriptions and spectrograms support ID for RCKI. In this recording, you can sometimes see/hear part A, on fewer occasions you just barely see a part B in the spectrogram, and most prevalent is part C. I suspect that may due to higher frequency of A and softer call of B, combined with the distance, and that part C was sung separately more frequently than parts A & B.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Mix Pre-3 II
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME66
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 82.1 MB