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24 km SE Mogileon, Buenos Aires Prov, Argentina
March 18 left 6:15 a.m., with class. Set up grids at each end of the grazed pasture (sheep, cows, horses) singing
10 a.m. Scattered clouds and brisk breeze.
20m 20
at about 1:30 started counting fresh
20 [illegible] Prenterkin
burrows, not much singing at this time
20 [illegible] Boing
but later in afternoon when wind died
20 [illegible] Balfin
down there was much singing. Tried
20 Place
localizing some on grid. Song lasts about 15 seconds and
includes 30 to 75 notes, more rapid towards end.
Evening clear, calm, moon and night past full. Tweez
song (bats) until after 9 o'clock. Many would sing
for a time, then quiet, then more singing, almost
no singing in the morning.
While localizing the sounds, certain individuals appear
to have sung 3 or even 4 times in the ± 2-hour period
(but never twice in succession)
March 19 morning clear, windy. Set 24 tree traps in the
start 7:30 dark only; then marked burrows on the census area
8:30-9:30. Ran traps at 11 a.m. = 11 traws.
after lunch hunted for effe/tyto burrows & pellets.
The one in our pasture that had parents and young Dze.27
is now abandoned and covered with grass. There
is another one close to the ranch house. It had a bird
near it March 14, [illegible] when we arrived here yesterday,
and early this morning, but this p.m. it was closed
and no bird; but a few pellets. The field with
the others (all not for Dze.27) has been plowed and