[Aztlan] Plaster and Echoes

[Dave Pentecost]

Listeros - I found this page of Quetzal recordings. Have not listened yet.
Listen and respond!

http://www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=QUETZAL

And for my own 2 cents, I would love to believe that the Maya intended to do
this. But I agree that merely saying that it must have been planned and
built that way, since they were so skilled at other things, is not enough.
And I suspect that many stepped pyramids (as well as other modern buildings
with steps - courthouses, etc.) will return similar effects.

Best
Dave


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Nick Hopkins <nhopkins at mailer.fsu.edu>wrote:

> Just a question-- I haven't been following this too closely.  There
> have been a lot of references to the "chirping" sound of quetzals.
> But my source on bird calls has no mention of such a call, and since
> Maya bird names often imitate the calls of the birds, I assumed that
> the quetzal would have a call something like its name, k'uk' (or
> q'uq'), like other Trogonidae.  Irby Davis (Field Guide to the Birds
> of Mexico and Central America, UT Press, 1972, pg. 87), says of the
> quetzal:
>
> "The song is made up of a series of similar calls.  A single motif
> may be represented as cuauk cuoo, or possibly cuak ca; the pitch is
> about F2D2 sharp E2.  The complete motif with the pause between the
> figures requires nearly two sec.; it is repeated after a rest of
> about one sec.  The series may continue for several minutes. Although
> it is heavier, the quality is similar to that of the Jalapa Trogon."
>
> So where is the "chirp"?
>
>
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