netbooks for recording bird calls at night

["vlad.kosarev" vlad.kosarev]

Dear members of the group,

does anyone have an experience recording sound on the netbook?

The task is to monitor bird's calls at night throughout the season of migra=
tion. The quality of the record should be enough to identify species, I am =
not up to the perfect quality of the record itself.

The idea how to do it sounds simple - put the car battery, netbook and micr=
ophone outside and leave it alone recording the migration calls and changin=
g the battery from time to time.

But as always there are some technical problems.
I tried it with Telinga dish and stereo microphone, but the quality of reco=
rdings is very poor. Seems the sound card is needed to amplify the signal.=

What kind of USB sound card is the best?

I would really appreciate any advices from experienced people.


Thank you in advance!
Vlad