ML522725331
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
Same bird as the other recording. Only processing is applying a 900Hz High Pass Filter and then normalizing to -3db in Audacity. The 900 Hz filter eliminated passing vehicle and airplane noise but did not impact the bird's vocalization. Playback was used to get the bird to come out of the brush on the ground and then it perched signing. To my ear there was no difference between the playback and no playback song.
Observation details
Known spot. Photos and recording to follow Thanks for Kadynn Hatfield for posting the location of his sighting on 6 January. I parked on the road near there and almost immediately heard a singing bird in the distance. It was dead quiet out there and you can hear the bird a surprising distance away. When I finally got near the bird eBird said I had walked 1/2 mile. The bird was singing in the top of a creosote(?) at 32.4848, -111,7526. I am guessing the bird is a male by the amount of signing it did though Pieplow says females sing occasionally.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sound Devices MixPre-3 II (48 kHz, 32 bit float recording.)
- Microphone
- Wildtronics Mono
- Accessories
- Wildtronics Parabolic – Small
- Original file size
- 9.03 MB