ML619504855
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
What appears to be a first-year male Summer Tanager—which is mostly yellow with only a few hints of reddish—sings from atop a tree near the stream crossing at the old Cypress Park Campground. Background includes: Grace’s Warbler, W. Wood-Pewee, Hutton’s Vireo. Recorded using a Fostex FR-2LE with a Sennheiser ME62 & Telinga Universal 22" parabola.
Observation details
A singing first-year male along creek crossing near the old Cypress Campground; song recorded when I was here early. The bird was still singing when REW and I returned there at the end of our surveys. It is basically yellow, but on close inspection, with some more richly colored under-tail coverts and some faint suggestions of reddish to the sides of the lower throat, suggesting a male, as does the fact that it’s singing. But this bird was not in any way a more classic blotchy young male with spots or extensive swathes of color coming in; so we remain puzzled about its plumage. The bill was pale, fitting with Summer rather than Hepatic. Otherwise, it was generally lighter yellow below and green or olive above and lacking any kind of face pattern typical of Hepatic. The species is common well down the canyon but scarce this high. Recording.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Fostex FR-2LE
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME62
- Accessories
- Telinga Universal 22" parabola
- Original file size
- 7.87 MB