Hi all,
As a birdwatcher and birdphotographer I spent many hours in the field.
Birdcall and songs have always be very important to locate and identify
birds. In recent years sound & soundrecording are gaining more and more
importance in the identification and documentation of (rare) birds.
So since quite a while I am looking for a sound-recording device that will
meet my demands:
- light weighted and small (since I already have quite a lot of other
equipment to carry)
- long record time and battery life (especially needed for migration survey=
:
the device should be able to record for many hours on a migration post in
order to get that one rare birdcall that one sometimes get)
- not to fragile ( I want to carry it into the field)
- bird are not always close, so it should be able to record
sounds from a certain distance (but I guess that depends for a major part o=
n
the type of external microphone)
- the recordings should be easily digitally stored on a computer and put on
a website f.e. to share with others.
- last but not least, all of this should be within a reasonable budget.
Any experience from other people are most welcome (you can also contact me
private for this).
A few months ago I posted a similar question, but so far all solutions
are still a bit to expensive. The greatest cost is not the record-device
itself (like
f.e. a Hi-MD minidisk), but more so the microphone (f.e. Sennheiser).
Any help still greatly appreciated.
thank you in advance,
greetings,
Verbanck Koen
Belgium
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