[wisb] Re: Night migrants: Richland county
- From: john afdem <johnafdem@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:18:52 -0700 (PDT)
I recently spent a few hours on the ferry from Isle Royale (Lake Superior) to
Houghton Michigan and was fortunate to meet and spend some time with a guy who
was doing common loon banding/research at Isle Royale.
In addition to his loon research (his paying job) he's doing nocturnal
recording
using inexpensive home-made gear, and has some associates who have developed a
pc program that takes the recordings and culls through for the calls. That way,
he can listen to the calls, condensed, without having to spend 8 hours or so
going through the entire recording. They're working on getting the software to
match/id the calls and generate listings (species/time). They are also working
on building out the application so that it can be a distributed application
(like the 'search for ET' application). That way, they hope to get a few
hundred/thousand folks to do their recordings and generate a daily map of
migration patterns in considerable detail. Very cool ideas!
(Oh, and if you ever get a chance to go to Isle Royale, go!! The birds there
(most species anyway) are so wild they don't even care that you're there.
John Afdem
Okauchee, WI
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From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: harrierhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx; ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx; [Wisb]
<wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 1:29:14 PM
Subject: [wisb] Re: Night migrants: Richland county
Interesting question. I have a friend in New York (actually a couple friends)
who I know are doing their own recording of flight calls. Both diurnal and
nocturnal. I also have a couple other friends who are traveling around the
world recording every bird song they can.
The drawback with recording is that the equipment required for this is
ridiculously expensive (you think you're camera's expensive? It's nothing
compared to audio recording equipment). The other thing is that it would take a
substantial amount of work considering that the only reliable way to compare is
to process your recording, edit out the background noise and create a sonogram
of the sound and compare it with a sonogram from the CD.
Might be a good project for someone who is working on their degree and can get
a
grant to purchase quality recording equipment.
Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County
http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto
"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be
again."
(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
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> From: harrierhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx; wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Re: Night migrants: Richland county
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:03:46 -0500
>
> Question: Is anyone out there (on the listserv) recording the fly-over call
>notes and then comparing them directly with what is on the Evans CD? It might
>be
>an interesting way of verifying i.d.
>
> Andrea Szymczak
> Waukesha, WI
>
>> From: ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [wisb] Re: Night migrants: Richland county
>> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:41:36 -0600
>>
>> Chris, can you share with the group how you are identifying many of the
>> birds
>>on your list? I have Bill Evans' CD of nocturnal flight calls
>>(http://www.oldbird.org/) but it doesn't seem to provide the level of detail
>>necessary for coming up with some of these ID's.
>>
>>
>> Ryan Brady
>> Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
>> http://www.pbase.com/rbrady
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx
>>> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [wisb] Night migrants: Richland county
>>> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:19:10 -0500
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> If you're still awake and aren't outside, get outside! The radar is
>>> currently
>>>lit up like a lightbulb. I've had about 30 individuals go over in the last
>>>hour.
>>> So far, Veery, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Cape May
>>>Warbler, Yellow Warbler, a Chestnut-sided, a couple Tennessees, Song
>>>Sparrow,
>>>Field Sparrow, a few unidentified Dendroicas, a few unidentified Oreothlypis
>>>sp,
>>>and a non-emberizid/non-parulid that was very familiar, but I couldn't place.
>>>
>>> Hopefully tomorrow morning will be hopping! :D
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County
>>>
>>> http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto
>>>
>>> "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its
>>> first
>>>material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire
>>>the
>>>composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes
>>>no
>>>more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be
>>>again."
>>>
>>> (From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
>>>
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