ML475701641
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
- Sounds
- Call; Duet
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Quite a long recording of the male calling almost continuously, within 4-5 metres of a nest containing at least one chick. He had been calling for more than a minute before the start of the clip - I thought I was recording at that time but realised I wasn't. at about 0:42, he flew a bit further away and I paused the recording, but resumed it again when he soon returned and started calling again. From 1:18 to 3:40, the female can also be heard. She was always a little further away from me and higher in the tree, so the most prominent calls in the recording are always the male's. The male was seen going to the entrance of the nest once and the female twice during the checklist observation period, but not while this recording was in progress. High pass filter applied and normalised to -3dB, which actually slightly reduced the volume of the target sounds. The final 12 seconds of the recording were trimmed off as there were no further target species sounds. There are plenty of background sounds from the mall - music, car horns, occasional banging. These were left unmodified to give the full context of the birds' behaviour and vocalisations.
Observation details
A pair attending a nest containing at least one chick. Male recorded, with female also present from 1:18 to 3:40 in the recording. It's so weird to me that after nearly 6 years of birding the in the suburbs and semi-rural fringes if northwest PP, this is the only place I have seen Olive-backed Sunbirds (apart from once near Angkor Blvd), and now here they are breeding in the thin strip of garden trees between the mall and the carpark. The nest is right next to one of the main entrances, near Brown Coffee.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro
- Microphone
- Inbuilt microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 25.71 MB