ML647790789
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Flight call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Two Purple Finches in the olive tree where they have been feeding on olives. No idea if these are the same two as the female types that I recorded and photographed, but it seems likely.
Observation details
They were feeding on olives in the olive tree. I got a few recordings of various parts of the whole flock of 6, and I thoroughly photographed and recorded two female types that kept coming back to the olive after most had left. Those two and at least one or two of the others sounded like eastern flight calls to me, but close looks showed that both of them were clearly western plumage-wise. One was much greener than the other, but both showed blurrier and less contrasty streaking and face patterning as well as heavily dark-marked undertail coverts. Two males I saw looked western too. At least two birds in the flock gave normal western type flight calls.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Marantz PMD 661
- Microphone
- Senheiser Long Shotgun
- Accessories
- NTG3 Shotgun Mic Windscreen Deadcat
- Original file size
- 1.45 MB