El Salvador field notes, v4515
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slow measured note with a Crescendo. It was a smooth double whistle, of course we supposed it to be an owl sitting quietly in the tree but Latham found it to be a Screech Owl. Later during the day we heard the note in many places. I saw also in this locality many Orioles of which we got several. The females are very similar to the males but with less orange here. Many of them are molting into a different type of plumage. A small Rose Breasted Flycatcher was molting from red brown to black in its wings. We saw some sort of Goldfinch with very goldfinch like notes but failed to get it. What we had taken for Blue Buntings yesterday proved to be Tanagers. There are two different kinds. Probably the birds in the Palm that are nesting are Tanagers also. Again a large Dove, I think the same as the one I shot yesterday was seen.