I finally got a chance to post some videos of the Mississippi Kites at
Sterling Forest a couple of weeks ago and a Kentucky Warbler we
encountered in May.
The 4 videos of the Kites include varied behaviors: the male searching
for nesting material, the female preening, and a mix of real time and
slow motion of copulation and flight seqments. A careful look at Drew's
slow motion flight video shows the rudder-like funtions of the tail.
The 4 videos are at:
http://www.birdsongid.com/video/hawks/mississippi_kite/
We posted 2 videos of a Kentucky Warbler that was very vocal. Drew
recorded the song, and one of the videos is a spectrogram from that
recording. We posted it at the bottom of the page with the songs from
the Kentuckys seen and recorded at RSPP in 2010 and 2011. This new song
is the typical song referred to as "primary" in BNA. It provides a good
comparison for the RSPP songs, which were not typical.
http://www.birdsongid.com/audio/spectrograms/kentuckywarbler/
This Kentucky was very difficult to see, but we did get a short video of
it singing. The link is at the top of the page:
http://www.birdsongid.com/video/warblers/kentucky/
This is certainly a year with good birds!
Trudy
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Gertrude R. Battaly
www.battaly.com, birdsongid.com
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