ML591573921
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 2
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Lifer! Heard singing and later calling from the east side of Main Street. I lightly bushwacked along a probable deer trail into some pretty dense vegetation where they sounded very close, but was never able to obtain a visual. It's song, like a lot of thrushes, had a short introduction, then a repeating up and down pattern, usually repeated four times. The introductory note is an up-slurred winding kind of sound. Unlike other thrushes, the repeated up and down pattern is entirely in the sort of glistening range reminiscent of the end of some other Catharus thrush songs like Hermit or Swainson's. I say reminiscent, but when those other species sing with that kind of glistening quality, theirs tend to be thinner or lighter in texture. The word "ethereal" sounds more appropriate for them than for Veery. I'm here in Idaho on a working vacation (perks of being able to work remotely), but I was feeling really sick on Sunday and Monday, so I didn't really get out much. I tried looking for these birds on Tuesday in another location upstream without success, so for this day I went where Harrison Hepding has been surveying and reported seven individuals just a couple of days earlier. I didn't have any luck as I walked around the border of the campground, but I finally started hearing them once I got closer to the road. I am finishing this write-up on 7/6 and the AOS just today announced the lump of Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatcher, the latter of which was my previous lifer and my 200th passerine. Since it doesn't count as its own species anymore, that milestone falls to this bird. Thanks to Harrison for the nice reports, and good luck with the cuckoos!
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Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 3.2 MB