Bird Sounds

Highland Guan, sonogram
Sonogram of the whistle of a male Highland Guan Penelopina nigra, from Eisermann, K. (2012) Highland Guan (Penelopina nigra), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY.

Knut Eisermann contributes to the collection and analyses of bird sounds of Guatemala.

An analysis of territorial toot calls of Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium cobanense in the highlands of southern Mexico (south of the isthmus of Tehuantepec) and northern Central America and Mountain Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium gnoma in the Mexican highlands north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec supports the specific separation of both taxa.
Eisermann, K. & S. N. G. Howell. 2011. Vocalizations of the Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium cobanense). Journal of Raptor Research 45: 304-314. more

Vocalizations of Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi were described from the Guatemalan highlands.
Eisermann, K. (2013) Vocal field marks of Unspotted Saw-whet Owl and Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl. Neotropical Birding 13: 8-13. more

A comprehensive natural history of the Highland Guan (Eisermann, K. 2012. Highland Guan (Penelopina nigra), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY.) includes a detailed description of sounds produced by this cracid endemic to the highlands of northern Central America and southern Mexico. more

Previously undescribed vocalizations of Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi, endemic to the Pacific slope of southern Mexico and Guatemala, were described in Eisermann, K., G. López, J. Berry, J. de León Lux & A. Burge (2011) Vocalisations and juvenile plumage of the Azure-rumped Tanager. Cotinga 33: 23-26. more

First documentation of the song of the endemic subspecies of Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis wetmorei in: Eisermann, K., C. Avendaño & E. Matías. 2017. Nesting evidence, density and vocalisations in a resident population of Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis wetmorei in Guatemala. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137: 37-45. more

Voucher recordings supporting these publications were archived at the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) and at xeno-canto.

Azure-rumped Tanager, sonogram
Sonograms of vocalizations of Azure-rumped Tanager, published in Eisermann, K., G. López, J. Berry, J. de León Lux & A. Burge (2011) Vocalisations and juvenile plumage of the Azure-rumped Tanager. Cotinga 33: 23-26.
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