Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Carrying food; Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Consecutive cuts of the spontaneous songs of a large-billed Savannah Sparrow singing from atop Salicornia and low shrubs in sandy coastal soil at La Piedra, Bahia Guasimas, Sonora. A pair seemed to have a nest nearby, as they were seen carrying food. It sang facing me and facing away. The male sang from one perch, then flew to another, sometimes across the canal, and then sang from atop another low perch, counter-singing with another male in distance. Background includes: vocalizations of House Sparrows and House Finch from buildings in the background. Recorded using a Fostex FR-2LE with a Sennheiser ME62 & Telinga Universal 22" parabola.
Observation details
Common at and beyond (W of) La Piedra (west lagoon arm), none before that (?); much song; two carrying food; close to lagoon, often on ground, around Salicornia and scattered mangroves; in pairs; many recorded; at edge of natural bay in natural vegetation, but also many using edges of a canal outside main shrimp farm pond area. through shrimp ponds and then to the beach, where several small restaurants advertise seafood. In patches of Salicornia near the first restaurant at La Piedra, one bird called and caught a small butterfly, apparently carrying it to feed young in a nest nearby. The male came in and started singing, approaching us closely, at one point even singing from the top of the open driver's door! We taped and photographed this male and then continued along the road, finding and taping several others.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Fostex FR-2LE
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME62
- Accessories
- Telinga Universal 22" parabola
- Original file size
- 36.86 MB