[birdky] Re: help identifying by song

If you have a PDA running Palm OS, you might be interested in Greg Sepesi's 
creations. He's working on a Universal Field Guide that sits on a PDA. I have 
been using an earlier version for a couple of years and really like it. Getting 
it up and running can be a bit tricky, but Greg is quick to respond to 
questions. Once you do have it running, it includes photographs, audio, 
detailed Wikipedia articles on each species, identification characteristics, 
even comparative mDNA! It also links to a feature for recording your sightings 
which you can then compile into a file and upload easily to Cornell's ebird.org 
website. If you are interested his site is 
www.eduneer.com<http://www.eduneer.com>. If you're slightly tech savvy it only 
costs 16.95 to download the stuff yourself, or you can get a preloaded disc for 
about $40.

Rob Foster

From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bennett, Mark
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:58 AM
To: Bennett, Mark; hshankla@xxxxxxxxx; birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birdky] Re: help identifying by song

Opps.  On the e-Field Guide, I should have mentioned Thayer's

Mark Bennett
270.726.2436

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From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bennett, Mark
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:56 AM
To: hshankla@xxxxxxxxx; birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birdky] Re: help identifying by song

Birding by Ear is really good for the anyone learning songs of common birds, 
especially passerines and other land birds.

Another tool is the software bird guide, e-Field Guide.  That Software has 
multiple images of birds, some good others not so good and a song/sound for 
each species that can be played or "looped" for repeat help without clicking.  
There is something about being able to see an image of the bird as you here its 
sound that helps me associate it a little better.  This guide for example 
helped me to at least appreciate that the shorebirds "calls" can be useful in 
identification.  I have not mastered that, but this spring if the water comes, 
who knows.

I meant to reply to this post earlier.  I regret my tardiness.

Mark Bennett
270.726.2436

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of error."   HAL
"No ... computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information".  HAL
"It can only be attributed to human error."  HAL
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeorpardize it."  HAL

From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of s hankla
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:47 AM
To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birdky] Re: help identifying by song

I agree that it's a carolina wren.  Someone also described the song as 
"cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger."

I recommend "Birding by Ear" by Walton and Lawson.  It groups similar sounding 
bird songs and then compares and contrasts them.

Scott

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Marsh, Scott <SMarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Marsh, Scott <SMarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [birdky] Re: help identifying by song
To: racehoss00@xxxxxxxxx, birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 8:42 AM
Sounds like a Carolina Wren to me. This would be the more likely bird to be 
repeated singing at this time also.
Scott
lexington

From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Nicole McClure
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:36 AM
To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birdky] help identifying by song

Hello everyone,

I am extremely new to the whole idea of birding and identifying birds visually, 
so identifying by song is even more of a challenge for me. I have heard a bird 
several times in the last week and it's driving me nuts trying to identify it. 
To newbie me, it sounds like he is singing, "hangover hangover hangover QUIT." 
Nine times out of 10 he does 3 "hangovers", sometimes only 2, sometimes 4...and 
it's always the three syllables. The end "quit" part is pretty shrill, and I 
believe it sounds like it ascends.

Again, I apologize for not being better at describing, but I thought I would 
take a shot at asking you.

Thanks!

Nicole McClure
Lexington, KY

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