{"id":2194,"date":"2010-07-08T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T04:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2016-11-25T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:39:11","slug":"a-sonoran-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/2194","title":{"rendered":"A Sonoran Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most spectacular birds in Mexico, Elegant Euphonias were common at our high camp at Rancho Santa Barbara. Photo by Jerry Oldenettel (Creative Commons 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, I’m back from two weeks in southern Sonora, recording bird sounds with an expedition led by the Sonoran Joint Venture<\/a> and Western Field Ornithologists<\/a> in the Sierra de Alamos \/ Rio Cuchujaqui Wildlife Protection Area.\u00a0 It was a fantastic trip; I got 10 lifers and accumulated 19 hours of audio to sift through.\u00a0 It’ll be great blog fodder once I catalog it all.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’m still struggling to crawl out from under the massive pile of Things To Do Now That I’m Stateside, so I thought I’d just share with you a quick sample of some of the more interesting audio moments from the expedition.<\/p>\n

Here’s the sound of a female Rose-throated Becard seizing a cicada, beating it against a tree limb until it quits stridulating, and then consuming it.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RTBEeatsOrthopteran-NDP2010-05-227.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Here’s a large colony of bats squeaking in their daytime roost in the skirt of dead fronds below the crown of a palm tree.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bats-NDP2010-05-145.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

If I were to judge a birdsong contest in Northwest Mexico, I’d have to give a prize to Sinaloa Wren, whose contributions to the soundscape were rich and frequent.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SinaloaWrenS2str-NDP2010-05-345.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

But I also love the sweet, soft, musical song of the Rufous-bellied Chachalaca.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RufousBelliedChachalaca-NDP2010-05-237.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

No Mexican audio sampler is complete without this bird sound (in fact, much of a recordist’s time in Mexico is spent trying to get away<\/em> from this species):<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rooster1c-NDP2010-05-005.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Near the El Cajon camp, an adult Gray Hawk fed two young at a nest right above my head:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/GRHAnestFeed-NDP2010-05-357.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

And here’s the grand finale: the sound of a small group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays driving a Laughing Falcon off his perch.\u00a0 He isn’t laughing about it, but if you listen closely, you can hear a couple of his faint chuckles.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BTMagJayMobLaughingFalcon-NDP2010-05-428.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

In the coming weeks, look for some blog posts with a decidedly southwestern flavor!\u00a0 It’s good to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m back from two weeks in southern Sonora, recording bird sounds with an expedition led by the Sonoran Joint Venture and Western Field Ornithologists in the Sierra de Alamos \/ Rio Cuchujaqui Wildlife Protection Area. I’m still struggling to crawl out from under the massive pile of Things To Do Now That I’m Stateside, so I thought I’d just share with you a quick sample of some of the more interesting audio moments from the expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}