ML581627031
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Original comments as Hammond's/Dusky: Odd! Very rare locally regardless of which one it is. Photos, audio and video. Not used to these being too tricky but this one was a tweaner! I pretty firmly believe this to be a hammonds, but circumstance is weird enough that I wanna leave it as slash until I can confirm. Singing and originally picked up by song. It sang persistently for the 20ish minutes i listened to/looked at it. The song wasnt the most typical hammonds song to me (though sounded better than for dusky) and it never gave any clear notes, just burry ones, and the quality fit hafl better than dusky. Visually, the bird was somewhat intermediate but it stayed high in the treetops the whole time making visual evaluation tricky. The primaries seemed pretty mid-length, perhaps on the long side, but hard to evaluate. The head seemed large but not out of range of dusky. The bill was short and thin. The bird was acting as if on territory in this lowland cottonwood forest, singing repeatedly from the tops of trees, a behavior I found quite bizarre. I tried extensively to get this bird to call (if it whitted or pipped this process would be easy!) but since it didn’t I’ll leave it as slash until I can get some external feedback. In the meantime, comments welcome! Edit: after looking at the spectrogram and listening to it more (along with sending it around a little) it seems like a Hammond's. Still very curious of any other opinions, if they're out there!
Technical information
- Camera
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 21.3 MB