ML70975881

Age and sex

Adult Male - X

Observation details

Splendid looks at a confiding male that responded, albeit delayed, to our initial attempt at playback in the morning! We walked just in from the edge of the southeast corner of the mowed property and the start of the open campina, where there seemed to be the vestiges of a trail connecting large, protruding boulders. We tried playback here at ~6:30 AM, but did not elicit any apparent response. As we were beginning to head deeper into the campina, two birds dove into the campina a short distance away. One was Thraupis palmarum, but I couldn't get a good look at the other one. Then, suddenly, this male S. fringilloides hopped up atop a dead bush and sang consistently for 6 minutes (6:34-6:40 AM), after which id dropped down into the campina and was not detected again. GPS coordinates for the specific location where the bird was perched are S 1.98795, W 60.02618 and, remarkably, this location is only 30 m in from the edge of the mowed property.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

1000

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.3

Shutter speed

1/320 sec

Dimensions

4000 pixels x 2333 pixels

Original file size

3.45 MB