ML93517871
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Non-vocal; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
50 HP filter used, to try to decrease train/plane sounds. Did not want to filter any of the cooing sounds, so did not use a higher pass.
Observation details
Two engaged in a territorial dispute, with wings and bodies colliding. One bird is about 10 feet up in a tree and is making the cooing sound (photo attached); the combatant is hiding in shrubbery about 15 feet in front of the first, and each time it came out into the open, the first bird flew down and engaged it, with whistling wings and bodies touching. At 2.38 in the recording (which is the second body contact on the recording) one of them squeaked, but otherwise, while fighting, only wing sounds are made. In between the body contact, the two separate and go back to their previous posts. I am calling the cooing sound "song." Other birds on recording: great black-backed gull, house sparrows, grackles, starlings and cowbirds making various sounds.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sound Devices MIXPRE3
- Microphone
- Telinga ProUniversal parabolic ME62 Sennheiser Omni mic
- Accessories
- 22 inch parabola
- Original file size
- 57.38 MB