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Contributor
Walter A. Thurber Media from this contributor
Date
6:30 AM
Location
Hacienda Los Pinos
Usulután, El Salvador
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
NOTES: REMNANT OF FLOOD-PLAIN FOREST BESIDE RIVER. THIS PAIR HAD BEEN BUILDING A NEST IN AN ABANDONED WOODPECKER NEST-HOLE MUCH OF THE PREVIOUS DAY AND EARLIER THIS MORNING. NOW THEY CAME TO THE TREE WITHOUT NESTING MATERIAL. THEY BEGAN COURTSHIP; RAPID MOVEMENTS AROUND TRUNK, JUMPING AND FLUTTERING FROM ONE STUB TO ANOTHER, OCCASIONALLY PAUSING WITH MUCH WING FLUTTERING. THEN A BRIEF COPULATION. THE ENTIRE PERFORMANCE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SOFT TWITTERING RECORDED HERE. AFTER COPULATION THE PAIR FLEW AWAY, ONE GIVING THE MORE TYPICAL VOCALIZATIONS OF THE SPECIES. Other Behaviors: Copulate, Court, Perform Visual Display. Habitat: River.
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- UHER 4000 REPORT IC
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Parabola 45.7cm (18in)
Archival information
- Digitized
- 30 Mar 2001 - Lauren A. Serafin