Originally posted 10/19/10 - backdated to organize posts by topic.
Here is an interesting video posted by infofon on YouTube that shows a female Carpintero Lomo Blanco, a Cream-backed Woodpecker, displaying an array of behaviors. Two birds are briefly in flight before one bird does a couple of double raps (typical of some members of the Campephilus genus) perhaps to signal another bird nearby. I'm not sure whether or not it is the same bird seen earlier, but toward the end of the video, you will see a female hitching herself up a tree trunk and then foraging.
Press play, then change the setting at the lower right of the video box from 360p to 480p to watch it at higher resolution.
I know a little Spanish, but not enough to translate the comments in this video. If you can translate them into English, please post a comment and then I'll revise this post with that info. UPDATE - Thanks to Martjan for this translation of the video comments into English:
"Well, we are going to try to continue observing. They told us it is very difficult to make a video take because they do not sit still. And they stay very few seconds in a tree and then fly to another tree. So we continue to walk, searching for other individuals around here".
3 comments:
Hi Bill,
very interesting video, but I cannot really translate all of it ;-)
Cool video, I like the noisy wingbeats early in the video. The spoken part translates as:
"Well, we are going to try to continue observing. They told us it is very difficult to make a video take because they do not sit still. And they stay very few seconds in a tree and then fly to another tree. So we continue to walk, searching for other individuals around here".
Excellent. Thank you!
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