David Adams wrote:
> I finally had a chance to start looking at the earbirding
> site that Peter links to and just wanted to say it's
> fascinating. I've already confirmed that I don't have a great
> natural ear, but that's not a shock. It looks like it will
> take some time to understand spectrograms but even after a
> few minutes with the examples, it's easy to see how much this
> approach has to offer. Verbal transcriptions of calls have
> never helped me (ever) - and those of us with imperfect ears
> are likely to hear songs wrong. (There are three notes not
> two? It's rising and *then* falling, not the other way
> around?) WIth the spectrogram, you can "see" the sound as it
> plays, making it a lot easier to hear it right. It's a bit
> eerie and exciting if you've been hearing the song
> incorrectly and then start hearing the same recording
> differently. A pleasure denied to those of you with great
> ears. My sympathies ;-)
I'm glad it's helped you, David. I've just been trawling through my archives to
see where I first heard about that site (http://earbirding.com), and it was
here on this list when mentioned by Alan McBride in August 2010. It was that
thread that finally made me get around to getting some recording gear.
> Since the other day, I also saw a new app announced that's
> taking an interesting approach to bird sounds. Instead of
> trying to be a full field guide with plates, etc. it's an app
> with nothing but sounds. So, sounds but in a usable
> arrangement for people with the right kind of device. Some of
> you may be familiar with www.birdsounds.nl. As far as I know,
> they're the most comprehensive commercial vendor of bird
> sounds on CD. CDs are an increasingly inconvenient format so
> Birdsounds seem to be moving towards downloads and now apps.
> There's a free "lite" version of the Costa Rica app
> (presumably the first in a series) that lets you see the
> features and try it out with a handful of sounds. They've got
> recordings with recoding information and black-and-white
> spectrograms. I'm hoping that they move forward with this
> approach as it would really fill in a gap for those locations
> (most of the world) where there are paper field guides but no
> electronic field guides.
I installed that app, but can't see any spectrograms in it, only wave forms.
Are they only on the website?
Peter Shute
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