Check this site Marten.
http://www.paulnoll.com/Oregon/Birds/courtship-lek.html
1GDW
--- In "Martyn Stewart"
<> wrote:
> Excuse my total ignorance here, what the hell is a "Lek" ????
>
> Martyn :)
>
> Martyn Stewart
> Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
> http://www.naturesound.org
> N47.65543 W121.98428
> Redmond. Washington. USA
> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>=20
> The Spring is cum=20
> The grass is riz=20
> I wonder where the birdies is?
>
> The birdies on the wing!
> Nah, that's absoid
> D' wing is on d' boid!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Peet
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:05 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Tried and trusted friends
>
> Mic was a MKH-110 to a consumer minidisk recorder set at the point
> that I had previously id'd as a lek. Manual record level set for
near
> field recording and I assumed the birds would come back to the
same
> spot as identified on three locations. I set the recorder for mono
> and turned it on one hour before first light and with a 80 min md
in
> mono I could let it go for 160 mins. This sample was one of the
first
> arrivals just pre-dawn
>
> I assume this is just two males you hear in this sample. I am not
> the expert Lang is in Lek behavior as I lack the formal schooling
and
> can get myself into trouble fast. I find the Leks much less
> organized for these guys than the Greater Prairie Chickens that
seem
> to form formal circles of dominance within a single lek. It also
> appears that the neck balloons don't actually eminate sound as in
the
> Greater Prairie Chicken. But that also is just my observations.
>
> Rich
>
> --- In Lang Elliott <>
> wrote:
> > Nice recording Rich. What mike setup did you use?
> >
> > Lang
> >
> > Very nice Rich, are all those calls from the male?
> > 1GDW
> >
> >
> > --- In "Rich Peet"
<>
> > wrote:
> > > Ok, here is a sample.
> > >
> > > Sharp-tails are in that same group of sounds like Woodfrogs.
> > > They sound like little elves, aliens or something from that
other
> > > place that few people get to visit. Anyway, that is why I am
> > willing
> > > to have spent the effort to get this.
> > >
> > > 250kb download
> > > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/ST.mp3
> > >
> > > Rich
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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