The peak frequency is the frequency at which the most sonic energy is
produced for said species. It is not the maximum frequency that the
species can produce as that is well above the equipments upper limit
for a number of species.
I hope that this helps.
Wil Hershberger
Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
The Songs of Insects
My Blog
On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:51 PM, John Hartog wrote:
> Hi John,
> 128bps still cuts of the peaks - now at about 15.9K. The reason I was
> wondering about the peaks is because while browsing species on the
> Singing Insects of North America website (http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/),
> I noticed "peak frequency" is used in identification.
>
> Is there is an online resource for songs of insects found in
> Austrailia?
>
> John Hartog
>
> -- In "John Tudor" <> wrote:
> >
> > --- In "John Hartog"
> > <hartogj_1999@> wrote:
> > >The mp3 compression you chose cuts off the peak frequencies of the
> > >chirps at 11.9k, a bit higher quality might reveal some key
> > >information.
> >
> > Here is one at 128k bit rate
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/8ggvcd
> >
> > I don't think they're as stationary as they seem. They are moving
> about.
> >
> > Regards
> > John
> >
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