help on nocturnal call id

["Denis Wilson" <>]

 

Hope these notes help. I will be interested to see if other Listers come up with other on-line sources.

 

Cheers

 

Denis
www.peonyden.blogspot.com

 

Love to Grow: Grow to Love

Hi Paul

 

Bird calls on the web.

Here are two reasonable collections of bird calls which are readily available on the web. Obviously they will not have all calls.

 

The ABC Library (of all places) has a moderate-sized library of Australian bird calls (approx 125 calls) which are freely available for listening to. Presumably this was built up for "sound effects" purposes originally.

http://www.abc.net.au/archives/av/birds.htm#a

The files are sorted alphabetically, by last name of the bird eg Bush Stone Curlew is filed under C for Curlew

Before you can play these audio samples you will need to download the RealPlayer (if you do not have it installed already.) It is downloadable and free from the Real Audio website.

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The Australian Museum's "Birds in Backyard" series has sound files attached to many of its entries. It has quite a good list, though - 340 species. You usually need to scroll down the page, looking for a box marked "calls". There may be a file available for download in MP3 format. These files are quicker to open than the ABC site, and play on a variety of regular "audio players" (eg, Windows Media Player, etc).

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/birdlist.cfm

Most annoyingly this list is sorted by first name of birds, and not even the most commonly used names. King Parrot is filed under A for Australian King Parrot. So, it might take a bit of scrolling to find what you might be looking for. Bush Stone-curlew is filed under B.

 

Occasionally I have come across other sites with some calls, but the selection is pretty limited usually (e.g., Lamington National Park).