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Bird Song
The links below are to sites specialising in bird song and sound. On some you will find extensive libraries of bird song from around the world, others are specialised or limited. As always, the fatbirder welcomes more links. Some of the most beautiful birdsong anywhere! Everything from amateur recordings to the massive archives stored in the University libraries. Many of the sites have recordings protected by copyright. Downloading is not free and may well not be possible as lots are encrypted. Before you resent this remember that someone`s livelihood may depend on respecting their copyright. Non-commercial use may be granted for free by some... it costs nothing to ask. |
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Birds, Birds, Birds! [An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip]
by John Feith author of Birdsong Ear Training Guide DVD Video Guide ISBN 0975443410 http://www.caculo.com Buy this DVD online for $24.95 send payment to: John Feith, 1225 East Mifflin Street, Madison WI 53703. Orders will be shipped December 14th First Class (1-3 day). Contact john@caculo.com if you need a rush order. Profits will go to the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology & the Nature ConservancyISBN: 0975443410
Buy this book from NHBS.com
Birdsong by the Seasons
A Year of Listening to Birds by Donald Kroodsma - 2009 - Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN: 0618753362
Buy this book from NHBS.com
The Art of Pishing
Pete Dunne - Stackpole Books Softcover and CD set | 2006ISBN: 164822
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The Birdsongs of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East
Die Vogelstimmen Europas, Nordafrikas und Vorderasiens by Andreas Schulze 819 Bird soecies on 17 Audio-CDs * Playing time 19:20 hours. A German booklet accompanies the CDs English translation at: http://www.birdsongs.de/birdsongs.pdfISBN: 3935329490
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The Sound Approach to Birding - A Guide to Understanding Bird Sound
by Mark ConstantineISBN: 9081093312
Buy this book from NHBS.com
Why Birds Sing
David Rothenberg - Allen Lane 2006ISBN: 0141020016
Buy this book from NHBS.com
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Kindrogan - Scotland’s National Centre for Excellence in Field Studies and Biodiversity Training
http://www.field-studies-council.org/kindrogan/...are running a wildlife sound recording course...
The Sound Approach
http://www.soundapproach.co.uk/intro.PHPThis site contains information about who the Sound Approach are as well as what we are doing. Information can be found about our books already written, and exciting new books that will be coming out in 2007 and beyond can all be found here...
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Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!
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naturerecordists
http://www.naturesongs.com/naturerecordists.htmlTo post to list:naturerecordists@yahoogroups.com
List contact:naturerecordists-owner@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to list:naturerecordists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
E-Mail group of individuals interested in recording natural sounds... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/
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Animal Sound Recordings
http://www.avisoft.com/sounds.htmA growing database of animal calls, songs and sounds…
Bird Call Recordings - Taiwan
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/9003/birdcall.htmThis is the only page on the Internet containing bird calls from Taiwan. Below is the list of recordings that I have made in the past few years and donated to Cornell`s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Most are now available for download in mp3 format. Although some are not yet available online, they will be soon. If you`re anxious to get a hold of these recordings, they are all accessible by requested from Cornell`s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
Bird calls and songs
http://pjdeye.blogspot.comThe most familiar sound birds make is song, which is the often complex series of notes that birds make to establish territory and attract mates. Songs can be sub-divided into categories or functions such as flight, dawn, territorial, courtship etc…
Bird Listening Cafe
http://www.blk.mmtr.or.jp/~yuri/Japanese Bird Song
Bird Song
http://www.1000plus.com/BirdSong/birdsong.htmlHere are two lists of mnemonics and other descriptions that can be used as an aid to remembering and identifying birds in the field by their songs and calls. The first list, by Voice, is sorted alphabetically by the sounds birds make. The second, by Bird, is sorted alphabetically by bird name. This is part of a much bigger site with lots of other bid ( N American) info.
Bird Song
http://www.virtualbirder.com/vbirder/edcentral/birdsong/shelf/index.htmlA selection of CDs etc available from the Virtual Birder.
Bird Song - Kultasointu (Golden Harmony)
http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/hallilau/Kultasointu is a Finnish enterprise and trademark for nature recordings.The recordings have received plaudits because of their high quality of production. Nature recordings have been carried out by Lauri Hallikainen, the owner of Kultasointu. Petteri Harinen gives him technical assistant. All recordings are original, genuine and pure nature records without any artificial elements or mixed materials. Only some background cracks and swish has been eliminated. The best I`ve ever heard! See Fatbirder Review
Bird Song Ear Training
http://www.caculo.com/dvd.htmSeveral books and DVDs on the subject [US Birds]
Bird Song Mnemonics
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/2965/mnemonic.htmTechnically, mnemonics are gimmicks we use to remember songs and calls, while phonetics are actually what the bird is saying. For example, pewees say pewee and Phoebes say phoebe so those are phonetics. Barred owls say who cooks for you, but not really. That`s a mnemonic. I think that we all use the two interchangeably. There are also comparative sounds, i.e., when we compare a song or call to something. For example, a red-breasted nuthatch sounds like a tin horn or a common grackle sounds like a rusty pump handle. Of course, all of this takes a great deal of imagination and creativity, but that`s the fun of it, right? Another useful N American guide.
Bird Songs (International bv)
http://www.birdsongs.comBird Songs International BV is a Dutch company dedicated to producing and marketing CD-ROMs about birds and other animals. You can shop on line for their products too - I have their Birds of Bolivia and can recommend it - Fatbirder.
Bird Songs Australia
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/calls.htmlA selection of some Australian bird songs and calls.
Bird Songs/calls
http://www.birdsofbritain.co.ukAtmospheric site. The Breckland Dawn Chorus is produced by Andrew Flintham in association with the Astral Music Company and Planet 7 Records. The full CD or cassette features over one hour of ambient birdsong recorded in Norfolk, England.
Bird Voice
http://www.birdvoice.co.ukBirdVoice offer the first truly instant way to access calls and songs for each of the 270 species on our British list. For the past two years we have been developing the BirdVoice technology and are pleased to launch now for the first time in Spring 2007. The BirdVoice team would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in the project and wish everyone purchasing BirdVoice the very best with this exciting new product...
Bird Watching Electronic Listening Device
http://www.rkdm.com/birdwatching/Bird Watching Electronic Listening Device can capture distant sounds (and voices) that would otherwise not be heard with the help of our sophisticated Bird Watching Electronic Listening Device. Imagine standing in the end zone of a football field and being able to hear what someone is saying at the other end...
Birdjam
http://birdjam.comKnow the birds you hear; Bird songs on your iPod...
BirdPod
http://www.ibirdpod.com/playlistsBirdPod is an iPod loaded with bird songs—and lots more. Unlike a typical bird song CD set, birdPod's bird songs are organized to enable quick identification of bird songs in the field. We think birdPod is the best tool yet for learning bird songs. And, it's fun...
Birds of the World
http://birdix.com/All sounds plus sonograms
BirdSite
http://birdsite.orgA community-generated catalog of images and sounds for wild birds worldwide…
Birdsounds
https://www.birdsounds.nl/Birdsounds.nl is gradualy expending its collection of CD's and DVD's about birdsongs. We offer now over 400 different titles to birdwatchers all over the world...
BirdVoice
http://www.birdvoice.co.ukBirdVoice offer the first truly instant way to access calls and songs for each of the 270 species on our British list. For the past two years we have been developing the BirdVoice technology and are pleased to launch now for the first time in Spring 2007. The BirdVoice team would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in the project...
BLOG - Bird Calls & Songs
http://pjdeye.blogspot.com/A blog about bird sounds using original recordings and sonagrams...
Borror Lab of Bioacoustics
http://blb.biosci.ohio-state.edu/The Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics (BLB) is a unit within the Department of Zoology of The Ohio State University, and is housed in the College of Biological Sciences Museum of Biological Diversity. The BLB houses one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world. Founded by the late Dr. Donald Borror, Professor of Entomology and Zoology at The Ohio State University, the collection contains approximately 23,200 recordings of over 1000 species of animals.
British Library National Sound Archive
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wild.htmlThe Wildlife Section at the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) was established in 1969 as the British Library of Wildlife Sounds. Today it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, with more than 100,000 recordings of all kinds of animals and their environments world-wide.
CD - Sam`s Guides
http://www.samsbirds.com/US Birdsong CDs
Conservation Calling - Ringtones & Wallpaper
http://www.conservationcalling.comBird and wildlife ringtones, cell phone wallpaper and mobile games…
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
http://www.earthear.com/catalog/diversity.htmlThe largest collection of its kind in the world, The Library of Natural Sounds (LNS) at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is a vital tool for bird conservation. LNS contains an amazing collection of almost 120,000 wildlife recordings- unparalleled in the world in both size and scope. Recordings of more than 5,400 species of birds as well as numerous recordings of reptiles, amphibians, and mammals are represented in the collection. Several thousand recordings are added each year.
David Stewart`s Nature Sounds
http://www.naturesound.com.au/Bird, Frog and Mammal calls encompassing the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern Australia with detailed support information in the cover. Comprehensive coverage includes 5 frog species which are believed to be extinct.
Dinner Song
http://www.dinnersong.com/Call birds to your backyard in their own Language! If you’re having trouble bringing beautiful birds into your backyard, DinnerSong audiotapes can help. Professionally recorded food calls are on 1 hour cassettes that you can play in your backyard to attract the birds you want quickly.
Earbirding.com
http://www.earbirding.com/blogRecording, identifying, and interpreting bird sounds… A birder since my childhood in South Dakota, I got started identifying bird songs by studying the classic “Birding By Ear” field guides in the Peterson series. It wasn’t until 2003, when I faced the frustrations of studying sounds for my first trips to Mexico and Costa Rica, that I fell into my current obsession with finding new and better ways to learn, describe, and catalog bird sounds. Along the way I got obsessed with recording and formal bioacoustics too…
Fiddle Tunes - For the Birds
http://www.singingwolfrecords.com/Cheeky but I couldn`t resist ading this! This is one of the tastiest independent label albums you will come across any time soon. The eclectic mix of Texas fiddle and bluegrass to Celtic and jazz may raise an eyebrow or two, but the entire collection of songs is tied together by a single theme. All songs are tunes with bird names. The standards are wonderfully interpreted without losing the original integrity, and the originals Arvel composed are an incredible mastery of the music inspired by the calls and characteristics of our winged friends...
Fuglelyder
http://cyberbirding.uib.no/nof/galleri/lyder.phpMore than 300 mp3-compressed birdsongs...
Great Wildlife Recordings
http://www.rmpbiological.pwo.ca/Natural Sounds of Ontario - Birds, Frogs, and MammalsCD Produced by Monty Brigham
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net
http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/BirdSounds1.htmlThis is a link to one of the THREE pages devoted to links to websites about bird sounds.
Identiflyer
http://www.identiflyer.com/Organized on Interchangeable SongCards. Simply slide in another SongCard to change bird species. A must for bird fans of all ages and expertise.... this is a handheld device to identify bird song [US only]
Latin America Bird Song
http://www.xeno-canto.org…a community site for the collection of sounds from all of Central and South America...
List of Bird Song and Call Recordists
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/spec1.htmlSound recordings of many N American birds... for use or to down load under certain circumstances.
Living Sound Recordings
http://www.livingsoundrecordings.comA commercial source of bird song recordings. Welcome to Living Sound Recordings - It`s now possible to bring the outdoors inside with pure natural sounds of nature. Living Sound Recordings uses digital recording equipment with parabolic microphones to capture and record the purist example of a locations soundscape. Owner Dave Livingston is an American Birding Association member and a supporter of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and British National sound Archives, as well as a contributor to the Cornell Library of Natural Sounds.
Mandarin Productions - Bird Song CDs
http://www.mandarinproductions.comAre you going to visit The Gambia, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago or Mauritius? Then you will want one of these CDs to learn some of the beautiful bird songs of the area... Update text
National Sound Archive
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wild.htmlWelcome to the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA); one of the largest sound archives in the world. Opened in 1955 as the British Institute of Recorded Sound, it became part of the British Library in 1983 and now holds more than a million discs, 170,000 tapes and a growing number of videos. The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature to oral history and wildlife sound from the end of the 19th century to the present day.
Nature Songs
http://www.naturesongs.com/These pages provide samples of various natural sounds and photos, promote nature recording and archiving, and provide a library of sounds that people can refer to when they hear something new. Naturesongs.com also licenses its copyrighted sounds and supplies custom audio files to individuals and businesses for educational, sound effect, commercial and personal use…
Nature Sound
http://www.naturesound.com.au/Bird, Frog and Mammal calls encompassing the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern Australia with detailed support information in the cover. Comprehensive coverage includes 5 frog species which are believed to be extinct.
Nature Sound
http://www.naturesound.orgDigitally recorded Bird and Animal sounds... bird recordings of the month and a very good podcasting service, etc...
Nature Sound Studio
http://www.naturesound.com/Products and Services Featuring the Sounds of Birds, Frogs, Insects, and Mammals - Lang Elliott - Sole Proprietor
Nature Sounds.ca
http://www.naturesounds.ca/Nature Sounds.ca is dedicated to sharing the sounds and experiences of the woods and forests of northeastern North America. When recording, meticulous care is taken to exclude man-made sounds, or the sounds of domestic animals. A pristine audio experience of wilderness is the result...
Neville Recording
http://www.nevillerecording.com/Since 1994, Neville Recording Productions has created 5 CDs celebrating hundreds of feathered vocalists: Birds of the Kootenays, Bird Songs of the Creston Valley, Bird Songs of the Okanagan, Songs and Sounds of the Canadian Rockies, Bird Songs of Canada`s West Coast.
RememBird™
http://www.remembird.com/RememBird™ is the first digital audio recorder to have been designed by a birder, for birders. It can be attached to your binoculars to let you whisper your observations without taking your eye off the bird; record the bird`s call and (optionally) play downloaded recordings of hundreds of species...
Roland Fiala – Bird Songs of Europe
http://www.birdsongs.deThe bird songs of Europe…
Shortwing Sound Library
http://www.shortwing.co.uk/pages/services.aspThe main feature of the site is a sound library with a collection of recordings of over 750 species of 63 families from 28 countries. The bulk of material comes from India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Thailand and the UK...
Song Sleuth
http://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/songsleuth/Song Sleuth is the most exciting birding aid to come along ever. It`s the only device that lets you identify birdsongs in the field in real time. Just power-up and aim Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results...
Songs & Calls
http://www2.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Sound ID - Identiflyer
http://www.identiflyer.com/Over 200 US Birds and Their Songs on 20 SongCards200 birds along with stunning color illustrations, are organized on 20 interchangeable SongCards and play through the IdentiFlyer SongPlayer. SongCards are arranged by habitat making it easy AND rewarding to recognize birds in your area even on your VERY FIRST try. Simply slide in different SongCards to explore the entire world of birding. A must for nature lovers of all ages and expertise...
Sounds Natural
http://www.soundsnatural-hss.comWelcome to Sounds Natural Hearing Support Systems, your guide to selected nature reserves in England and Wales where SNHSS has been installed. This unique system enables people with hearing and visual disabilities to access the sounds of nature through specially designed sound equipment - bringing amplified sounds inside a nature observatory or bird hide as they happen - providing enhanced access to the countryside throughout the seasons.
Sounds Natural and Tale to Tell
http://www.onm1.demon.co.uk/Welcome to Sounds Natural and Tale to Tell, an audio production company which was started by Ken Jackson in the late 1980s at a time when he had been producing and presenting natural history for BBC World Service, Radio 2 and Radio 4 for several years. We provide an unique range of natural sounds on their own or radio-on-cassette-and-CD productions with commentary covering many aspects of wildlife and the countryside, as well as drama, poetry and heritage titles.
Sounds of Nature by Frillie
http://www.soundsofnaturebyfrillie.comHearing enhancement for birders...The BW-1 series was specifically engineered and designed for the birdwatcher.
Suoni & Canti degli Uccelli d`Europa
http://www.scricciolo.com/eurosongs/canti.htm...covers 413 species with one example of each...
Telinga Parabolic Microphones
http://www.telinga.co.ukAll Telinga Parabolic Microphones are designed for the utmost reliablity. They are amazingly light-weight, at around a kilo, and very easy to use. Great care has been taken to solve the most common problems with wildlife recording - wind and handling noise, as well as inherent noise from the microphone and amplifiers. Telinga designs are unique. They have been developed over many years of careful research and continuously updated in co-operation with ornithologists, wildlife film makers and researchers in the field of bio-acoustics.
Turaco Nature
http://www.ornithographs.com/indexconnop.html...a wide selection of audio recordings of bird sounds from around the world as well as expert birding advice... Scott Connop leads ornithological tours all over the world. He specializes in recording bird sounds and has become one of the world`s foremost experts on identifying birds by call....
Vogel Geluiden CD
http://google.fol.nl/vogelgeluidencd/This is a dutch website. It is a project to collect all birdsounds of the birdspecies in Europe. There is possibilty to buy a CD for a very low price (€ 15) which contains 668 files in wav-format of almost every every european bird. In the near future the wav-files will be made downloadable...
Western Palearctic Bird Sounds
http://www.ifrance.com/wpbs/The aim of this site is to make a census of a maximum of West Palearctic sound document. Species lists include rarieties, even if they have just one record in the considerated geographical zone. Species are classified in systematic order with latin (french / english / german / spanish) names. To obtain more details about each sound document (analysis, sonogramme, origin, etc.); please visit the respective sites.
Wild Sanctuary
http://www.wildsanctuary.com/Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest private archive of natural sound, anywhere! Our worldwide collection represents over 3,500 hours of wild soundscapes and nearly 15,000 species. The mission: To help connect people to the wild by preserving, presenting, and protecting the voice of the natural world...
Wildlife Acoustics
http://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/Now you can identify birdsongs in the field in real time. Just point Song Sleuth in the direction of a birdsong. In seconds, the software analyzes, identifies and rank-orders the prime suspects and displays the results. Song Sleuth uniquely combines the latest signal processing and directional microphone technologies with birdsong recordings from the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It's not a mere birdsong dictionary or flashcard pack. It's a totally new high-tech tool for birders at all levels...
Wildsounds
http://www.wildsounds.co.uk/WildSounds is a leading international supplier of bird and wildlife sound guides on CD and cassette. Our extensive catalogue also includes gentle atmosphere recordings, videos, CD-ROMs and Field Recording Equipment. We have successfully launched a comprehensive natural history mail-order book shop. Order Online to take advantage of POSTFREE delivery in the UK and many discounted prices, even on new titles!
Xeno-canto
http://www.xeno-canto.orgXeno-canto hosts over 1400 species from Colombia, Peru and Brazil, over 1300 from Ecuador, over 1200 from Bolivia and more than 1100 from Venezuela…
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