I dumped the stuff on my web site:
Select what you want. They are mp3 files. If you need *.wav files can
do but they will take you a lot longer to download.
http://owlnut.rr.ualberta.ca/~barb/sounds/FlycatcherVocalizations/
I also included the comparison tracks where certain species are compared
side by side. This seems to help my students greatly in learning the
vocalizations
Good Luck
Remember a Berkeley Forester (BS and PhD) is part of the team that
recorded these things.
I have very few California recordings. I got spoiled up here in Canada
with the lack of noise pollution (also other types) always get
discouraged when I go home and try to record. Incidentally we remember
a very very different California than you see today. When I was born
the population was only about 4 million. As a kid I remember a time
when less than half of the valley oak grass woodland had been broken.
The wildflowers on the valley floor were truely amazing. Our ranch is
near Ivanhoe - near Visalia. As a kid we had a crystal clear view of
the Sierras (like in the Ansel photos) unless there was a grass fire in
the vicinity and could also see the coast range. You could climb to the
top of Moro Rock and see forever. In fact the word smog was not
invented until I was in high school and that was something that was just
down in LA and would never have anything to do with the rest of the
state. When we started university at Berkeley there were still cows in
a small pasture at the edge of Berkeley. Very very different world than
what is there today. The butterflies at our ranch were amazing and the
gardens full. We had the eastern form of the Viceroy there but
unfortunately as a kid I did not collect and keep samples. Now it is
nowhere on the range map for California because nobody has a record of
it. The gardens are still on the ranch but very very few butterflies.
Better living through chemistry is practiced in the orchards now and
little butterfly habitat left there. Even the road edges which used to
have wildflowers are sprayed with herbicide.
Barb Beck
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ali wrote:
>Dear Barb,
>
>Thank you so much for your gracious offer. Martyn Stewart sent me some
>really great clean files this morning.
>
>I absolutely would love Alder, Yellow-bellied, and PacSlope/Cordilleran.
>Alder would be great as it could be a bugger if ever encountered here,
>although highly unlikely. We have had every empid in North America here but
>of course the western species are most common.
>
>I guess Gray will be a problem as few seem to have that one.
>
>Multiple recordings of other species would be great as well as I have one
>page that scrolls through all of the empid and two contopus sounds in
>alphabetical order and pages with the species photo and descriptors with the
>sound playing in the background.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Ali
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barb Beck
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:00 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Looking for flycatcher recordings
>
>
>
>Hi Ali,
>
>I have hammonds, dusky, willow,olive sided, alder, wwpeewee, e phoebe,
>pacific slope/cordillerian flycatcher (that is not a clean split - the
>birds here in alberta have intermediate calls and songs),yellowbellied
>as well as E and W kingbird.
>
>As far as sound alikes - would mainly be alder( free be'er) and willow
>(friitz' brew). I suppose other two syllable songs (least (chi-beck)
>and yellowbellied (chi blink)might fall into that category if you want
>to stretch it but the more complex three part songs like hammonds,
>western (ps and cordillerian), dusky, olive sided should not cause
>confusion. The kingbirds are not even in the ballpark.
>
>Let me know which ones you need. I will upload them to my ftp site if
>you wish.. Please give Jim and I credit for the recordings.
>(Incidentally Jim is a forestry professor at the university of Alberta -
>he started the forestry program here 33 years ago when we moved here
>from California).
>
>The sounds uploaded will be from my 3 cd set Alberta Birding by Ear
>which I use with my students in an advanced wildlife field
>identification class.
>
>Barb Beck
>
>Edmonton
>
>Ali wrote:
>
>
>
>>Good Day All,
>>
>>I am working on a project for the forest service in California where I work
>>as a seasonal bio tech. My boss has requested that I create a PowerPoint
>>presentation of Willow Flycatcher sound-alikes. Unfortunately, I only have
>>recordings of willow flycatchers. Also, if anyone knows of birds other than
>>flycatchers that might make a fitz-bew sound, that would be fantastic to
>>know and have a recording of.
>>
>>Would anyone be interested in donating recordings of Empidonax flycatchers,
>>Olive-sided Flycatcher, and Western Wood Pewee? The presentation will be
>>used in west coast forests to train bio tech's such as myself on how to
>>differentiate Willow Flycatchers from others by voice and appearance?
>>
>>Any format would be great. Chips, squeaks, calls, and songs all would be
>>wonderful. On the most wanted list are Gray, Dusky, Hammond's,
>>Pacific-slope, Willow, and Alder Flycatchers along with Western Wood Pewee
>>and Olive-sided Flycatcher.
>>
>>I plan on starting recording next field season and will be asking your
>>indulgence in picking the nicest low end recorders and associated equipment
>>to start putting recordings on my website.
>>
>>Thanks for all the great work you do and especially to Doug for his great
>>website.
>>
>>Ali
>>
>>Alison Sheehey
>>P.O. Box 153
>>Weldon, CA
>>93283
>>
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>>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>A listening room is not nature."
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