Last May I was recording a Lark Bunting through the window of my car. Now this
guy, a male in breeding plumage, was about 35 feet away on a barbed wire fence
and fanning and shaking it's tail during most of the vocalizations. His back
was to me so I couldn't see the bill movements.
The vocalizations really sounded different then I thought a bunting should
sound. I was rather excited thinking that maybe I had a different or rare Lark
Bunting vocalization.
I sent the recording to Geoff Keller for his comments and was surprised that
what I thought was a Lark Bunting was really a Grasshopper Sparrow that was
more or less in line with the Lark Bunting.
Do you suppose the tail movements of the bunting were a coincidence or was he
somehow stimulated by the sparrow's vocalizations?
Jim
Jim Morgan
Prescott, Arizona USA
http://www.wingsofnature.com
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