ML355599701
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 2; Adult Male - 2
- Sounds
- Duet; Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
two pair calling/duetting, appears to be territorial; recording begins with closer pair (those of the photographs for this record), at a distance of about 50m, across the creek; note the deep "blooping" sound that forms part of the call; at 0:25 the first pair stop and a second pair, perhaps 200 (?) to the south of the recordist, can be heard, presumably having started before the initial pair had finished; at this distance the blooping sound is not evident
Observation details
two seen; another two pairs heard calling in distance, one to the north the other to the south; seems that the typical vocalisations of this species are duets between a pair and are for the purpose of territorial marking; sometimes the duetting causes another pair to respond, but usually not; from my experience, Chestnut Rails do not respond to playback
Additional species
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 4.4 MB