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Bird Call Cd's

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Subject: Bird Call Cd's
From: John Leonard <>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:24:11 +1000
Sorry to be frivolous, and I do appreciate the amount of work that
went into the BOCA tapes.

However, my family finds the voice introductions hilarious, and often
when we are out and see a bird we imitate the intros:

Yellow-RUMPED THORNbill &c

:-)

John Leonard

On 11 May 2010 06:52, Paul Jacobson <> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> There is a limited range of calls in this format on 
> http://www.xeno-canto.org/Australasia. Xeno-canto relies entirely on user 
> submitted recordings, so the best way to improve the database is for those 
> who are interested in bird call to start recording and submit recordings to 
> the database.
>
> You can edit the CD calls using something like the free cross platform sound 
> editor Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/    There is a nice 
> sonogram/spectrum view which make it very easy to identify the gaps between 
> calls and also allows you to visualise the details of the call which can make 
> learn the subtle differences much more easily discernible.
>
> A fantastic book for understanding songrams and bird call is The Sound 
> Approach to Birding by Mark Constantine  ( http://www.soundapproach.co.uk ) . 
> The examples are primarily European but I haven't seen the information 
> presented in such a reader friendly way before.   Andrew Isles appears to 
> have this book available.
>
> cheers
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/05/2010, at 4:55 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
>
>> I knew there would be some kind of impediment to it.
>>
>> My own incentive for splitting up the tracks is not for playback but to help 
>> me compare and learn calls. I find it difficult to compare calls of similar 
>> sounding species when there is a long delay between them, worse when they're 
>> separated by another sound, e.g. a human voice.
>>
>> The ideal solution would be a player that can create playlists of partial 
>> tracks, but I haven't been able to find one. I guess they're all intended 
>> for music tracks, and there's no reason to play anything but the whole track 
>> of those.
>>
>> Peter Shute
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