ML622223982

Media notes

After playback a different pair of Little Inca-Finches responds to playback. One (preumably the male) flies into the top of a tree, sings, and then does a flight display up 4-5’ while calling and then sails down to another treetop. Background includes: Bananaquit, Fulvous-faced Scrub-Tyrant, Streaked Saltator, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Long-tailed Mockingbird. Digitized from a tape recording made on a Sony TCM5000 with a Sennheiser ME67, a Mineroff booster, & a foam windscreen.

Observation details

500m; singing, doing display flights, perching on tall shrubs or small trees, starting the song as a high, thin note perched, then with wings fluttering and held back in slow flight, does a 4-5m (sometimes 10m) flight display giving a raspy, whining little song (recorded by Rose Ann) (somewhat gnatcatcher like);

Additional species

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
• Fulvous-faced Scrub-Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps
• Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
• Peruvian Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium peruanum
• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus