ML614728379
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Male - 1
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Successive cuts of a first-year male Flame-colored Tanager singing from Arizona Sycamores along creek in our Portal yard. Background includes: White-winged Dove, Blue-throated Mountain-gem, Gambel’s Quail, N. Cardinal, W. Wood-Pewee. Recorded using a Marantz PMD620 with a Sennheiser ME67 & foam windscreen.
Observation details
= 1 = /14 Flame-colored Tanager ::: our yard June 12, 2010 ::: /14; Singing strongly, most like Western (with a burry quality to the song); seen well, but mostly tried to photograph it, with some success in poor light; fairly bright yellow on the throat, breast and crown, duller toward lower underparts, the only "flame" color to it a bit of orange cast to the forecrown; bill notably large, and gray toward black; cheek with a conspicuous dark area, but that area rather hollow, the strongest coloring being the outer border of the cheek patch; wingbars white, but rather small/narrow and inconspicuous; back rather concolor with wings, as a dark blackish-brown, and clearly streaked, but the pattern not studied well; tail brown, any pale corners not noted, but not studied; no call; sound recording and photographs. Assumed to be a one-year-old male. The bird seemed to be prospecting, covering rapidly sections of riparian along Cave Creek above and below our yard. [Addendum Feb 2024: REW recording can be downloaded on Xeno-Canto at XC872353; RAR recording uploaded to Macaulay]
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Marantz PMD620
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME67
- Accessories
- foam windscreen
- Original file size
- 7.75 MB