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1 Km. W Puerto Garnica
June 10 call would be expanded into loud long she-dit
she-she-dit calls given by several birds of a group.
Saw no chasing of pairs today.
Saw a nest in a small, strongly fir, - about 25
feet up on a nearly horizontal limb. Nest was along
a very lanky. Activities of a group was centered
around this area & I saw one bird visit the nest
for a few moments. The nest was at the edge of an
open area.
Birds feed along branches and especially on our clumps
of pine needles - often being repulsed down for a moment.
From detail no difference in feeding methods between
this species and zonotus.
The calls are probably not so similar to [megalo]opterus
given as I at first thought but the differences are difficult
to record. The [che-che-] call of zonotus is used only
very infrequently - but the stage of breeding season is
not comparable. Megalopterus is much less uniformous
but, again, the season is not comparable. - In any event
I doubt that differences in call, songs (if any?) would
be barrier to interbreeding - they are that much alike.
Che-che-che she-dit - common call.
Other birds noted: Chickadee, brown creepers, Pipilo, crowns,
Steller jay, red warbler, ant-eating woodpecker, Paranga
flava, Atlapetes pileatus, large woodhewer (called),
Catharus sp., Turdus migratorius? x