{"id":3159,"date":"2016-08-23T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2018-02-21T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:50:57","slug":"scarlet-tanager-alarm-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Tanager alarm (?) call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the winter and into the spring, I studied bird call notes. I am quite a ways off perfecting this skillset, but I&#8217;m enjoying a growing familiarity with contact calls\/alarm notes. Learning call notes helps to hone in on birds of interest while walking through the woods<!--more-->, most especially during fall migration, when birds are mostly silent other than chips and tweets, etc. I heard two yesterday that baffled me; one that I heard I was able to ID the third time <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">I heard it: Mourning Warbler and one that I couldn&#8217;t place. The bird was buried in the bush and had been stirred to an agitated state by some &#8216;pishing.&#8217; I stayed quiet as not to encourage into view just yet&#8230;.a few seconds more, no ID&#8230;no idea. I let out a series of pishes and in flies a Scarlet Tanager! The call was a forceful <em>chup<\/em>; like a slightly crisper and more emphatic Yellow-rumped Warbler call. Scarlet Tanagers are throaty birds, and I envisioned this note swelling in the throat and &#8216;ejecting&#8217; from a hint of an opening to the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3160 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/14095876_10207357389396882_2586171103947072096_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: I was forced to decide on either recording the call or to take this photo&#8230;I chose the take-a-photo option, and, to be honest, it appears I captured the bird the moment it was &#8216;chupping.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Attached is an example of the call; this is virtually identical to the call I heard, so I was delighted to find this sample: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/87763\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/87763<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the winter and into the spring, I studied bird call notes. I am quite a ways off perfecting this skillset, but I&#8217;m enjoying a growing familiarity with contact calls\/alarm notes. Learning call notes helps to hone in on birds of interest while walking through the woods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}