Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
ML: Subject identified by recordist as Xiphorhynchus susurrans jardinei but assigned to Xiphorhynchus susurrans [susurrans Group] to conform to eBird Taxonomy (v. 2015). - Brad Walker 27Jul2016. The bird began singing again after a nearly ten minute gap, with my beginning to record again at 6:37 am after missing about ten songs. The bird was initially 75-100 meters away, but probably only 15-25 meters away later in the recording after I walked up to it, and probably 12-14 meters up in the canopy of a short (15 m-tall) but broad and densely vegetated tree, probably a mango, right at the top of a slope that descended to the stream. Late in the recording, a second bird (possibly a female but not necessarily this species) appeared in the tree and some sort of interaction followed in which the two birds dropped about 2 meters to a lower branch in the tree before moving back up again, and the singing bird began singing again but it changed its song. I saw the birds only briefly, but saw one well enough to identify it as a moderately large woodcreeper with a streaked head. The second part began after I missed three songs when the bird returned to the tree where it began singing today. The first part was recorded along a trail that left the road at a sharp curve about 800 meters before the entrance gate to the posada (ca. 2.2 km. from highway. 10° 07’ 55.6” N, 63° 33’ 13.0” W, 968 m), but in the second part, the bird was back in the upper branches of the tree where it began the day right over the road about 50 meters short of the bend (a 30 m-tall Erythrina that was being strangled). The trees this bird used were part of the canopy cover (mostly Erythrina) over a plantation of coffee with scattered banana trees and various other probably non-native shrubs in the understory. Sun was in the tops of the taller trees at the end of the first part of this recording, but not yet in the tree this bird was in. Almost completely clear with just a few high, thin clouds overhead, calm, 63-64° F. Same individual as ML 221620, 221626, and 221630. Equipment Notes: Sennheiser powered using phantom power and with filter in flat position and attenuator off for all recordings. Nagra input set at 2 mV / Pa and low-pass filter in flat position unless noted otherwise.
Additional species
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Psittacara wagleri
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Spectacled Thrush Turdus nudigenis
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Bicolored Wren Campylorhynchus griseus
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Orange-winged Parrot Amazona amazonica
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Chestnut-crowned Becard Pachyramphus castaneus
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
Technical information
- Recorder
- NAGRA ARES-BB+
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 20
- Accessories
- Roche Parabola 74cm/17.7cm (29.1in/7in)
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 28 Jul 2016 - Brad Walker
- Digitized
- 28 Jul 2016 - Brad Walker
- Edited
- 28 Jul 2016 - Brad Walker