ructional Designer
UCAR/The COMET Program
Boulder, CO
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I have often used the earth.nullschool streams to understand bird migration
movements. However, here in coastal Nova Scotia many birds, main
more insight into
passerine and small passerine movements at these intermediate altitudes between
100 and 1500 meters. I have only analyzed past events and never tried
forecasting.
John Kearney
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
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/Beaver_River_Yarmouth_County_Autumn_2018.html, and
http://www.johnfkearney.com/Cape_Forchu_Yarmouth_County_2017.html.
John Kearney
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/Beaver_River_Yarmouth_County_Autumn_2018.html, and
http://www.johnfkearney.com/Cape_Forchu_Yarmouth_County_2017.html.
John Kearney
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or gently rising slope
in the first part of the call.
John Kearney
Carleton, NS
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or gently rising slope
in the first part of the call.
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Hi Geoff,
I've heard spring peepers make a similar call at times. Were there any more
typical spring peeper calls in the recording?
John
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Hi Geoff,
I've heard spring peepers make a similar call at times. Were there any more
typical spring peeper calls in the recording?
John
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Hi All,
It looks like a good candidate for Seaside Sparrow.
John
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Hi All,
It looks like a good candidate for Seaside Sparrow.
John
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Subject: [nfc-l] NFC ID
Hi Dioni,
A detector will find the flight calls for you. This, and all other matters, are
explained in the manual available on line at the Raven software site.
John
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much for offering me documentation. In the case of the Evans
CD-ROM, it no longer seems accessible. Apparently, when I go on the internet, a
new edition should arrive in 2017, is this the case?
Dioni Loïc Sauvé
Laval, Québec
2017-10-25 6:40 GMT-04:00 John Kearney mailto:john.kear
Hi Dioni,
Thanks for sharing some of your night flight call clips. I’ve never used
Kaleidocsope so it interesting to see what a spectrogram looks like on the
program. Some of your calls were not very clear, perhaps because they were
distant. In any case, you might try adjusting your
Hi Dioni,
Thanks for sharing some of your night flight call clips. I’ve never used
Kaleidocsope so it interesting to see what a spectrogram looks like on the
program. Some of your calls were not very clear, perhaps because they were
distant. In any case, you might try adjusting your
Warbler,
and Canada Warbler. The closest weather radar at Caribou, Maine indicates
very low density of echoes so far. The totals for last night are listed
below.
John Kearney
Carleton, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
Nocturnal Migration for the night of 1-2 August 2017
Nice work David. It is always interesting to see the different ways that people
use to achieve the same objectives! I appreciate your creative approach to a
number of the steps in your process.
John Kearney
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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, May 2, 2017 5:22 PM, Benjamin Van Doren mailto:bmvando...@gmail.com> > wrote:
Perhaps Snow Bunting?
On May 2, 2017, at 2:10 PM, John Kearney mailto:john.kear...@ns.sympatico.ca> > wrote:
Hi Preston,
Very interesting flight call. It reminds me of a type 2 Red Crossbill. It’s
, and NJ.
John Kearney
Carleton, NS
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Subject: [nfc-l] Mystery Calls
5/1/17 -- 10:03 PM
Last night, I
Joshua
Mennill
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; Carrie Voss
Subject: Re: [nfc-l] 2016 Fall NFC Update
All,
In relation to this question, there is an exciting new paper in the journal
Biology Letters about the height of nocturnal
Hi Debbie,
Very interesting work. Low elevation in your area would be very high in a
coastal area. It makes me wonder how the preferred flight altitude of a migrant
is related to sea-level and local geography.
John
Carleton, NS
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Cc: nfc-l ; Samuel Miller
Subject: Re: [nfc-l] NFC Report Week of 10/1 through 10/7/2016
John,
I built my mic using the plans on Bill Evans' site. I waterproofed it by
putting plastic wrap over the top, however
-crowned Warbler, Black-capped
Chickadee, and Dark-eyed Junco began to appear this week.
The most common birds were Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-throated
Sparrows.
John Kearney
Carleton, NS
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Dimorphism
and Individual Identity? PLoS ONE 11(6): e0156578.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156578
It’s open access so it is easily accessible here:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156578.
John Kearney
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week of July being recorded during this period.
John Kearney
Carleton, NS
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Hi All,
I have written up a short report using weather radar and acoustic monitoring
to document a fallout of small passerines in southwest Nova Scotia on the
morning of 23 September 2016.
Here is the link: http://www.johnfkearney.com/Fallout_2016.html.
Comments welcome.
John
John Kearney
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Thanks,
John Kearney
Carleton, NS
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Sent: September-26-16 08:15
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Subject: [nfc-l] Bicknell's Thrush - More Classic Example
Albeit soft
Hi Jerald,
This is a tough one. I agree it is too high for Palm Warbler. It could be a
high Yellow-rumped Warbler. It might also be an odd Ovenbird. I would lean
toward Ovenbird but should probably go with warbler species?
John
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on Paul Driver’s blog post, this call would also
be a good candidate for Ipswich Sparrow.
John
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Hi Jerald,
I think some of the quality of the calls is lost when I convert your mp3s to
wav files. I had a bit of trouble reading the spectrograms. There were a number
of birds in those recordings. I could discern Swainson’s Thrush, Hermit Thrush,
one Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and perhaps one or
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Subject: Re: [nfc-l] NFCs Week of 9/3 through 9/9
Folks,
I haven't had time to look at my recordings much, so I have no counts to share.
My home recording station has very prominent insect song, so that I get
thousands
Jerald, Meena, and all:
My summary for this week can be found here:
http://www.johnfkearney.com/Carleton_YarmouthCounty_2016.html.
Regards,
John
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Thank you, Jeff. It is indeed a useful summary of the state of the art.
I recently received some literature on a new version of the Kaleidoscope
bioacoustics software with cluster analysis by Wildlife Acoustics. Has
anyone used this new version for the analysis of night flight calls?
John
ribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf
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at the second call, I thought it was a
Magnolia Warbler due to the spacing between humps, but on closer examination
its high frequency, number of humps, depth between humps, and somewhat
descending character fit better with Cape May Warbler.
John
John Kearney
Carleton, Nova Scotia
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Hi All,
Yesterday morning, 13 August, four minutes before civil sunrise at 0551
hours (0852 UTC,) in Carleton, Nova Scotia, I recorded what appears to be a
fall-out of American Redstarts (AMRE) and Black-and-White Warblers (BAWW).
In the space of 1 minute and 20 seconds, there were 21 American
Hi Jeff and all,
Quite interesting. I've heard this in Nova Scotia as well, especially near
the end of the breeding season.
John
John F. Kearney
Carleton, Nova Scotia
CANADA
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Hi All,
The rate of nocturnal movements of warblers almost doubled over the previous
week at Carleton, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. There was a total of 240
calls and at least 181 individual birds at a rate of 34 calls per night.
Warblers composed 99% of the calls recorded. Despite a continuing
Hi all,
I've posted a short report on nocturnal movements at my acoustic monitoring
station at Carleton, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia for the 4th week of July.
It is at the following url:
http://johnfkearney.com/Carleton_YarmouthCounty_2016.html.
John
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Hi Jerald,
Here are some thoughts are your calls.
The first could be a VESP that is shorter duration than average. It could also
be an OVEN. It seems to have the arch of an OVEN.
The second one is rather indistinct. Possibilities might be YRWA, BTNW.
John
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Raspberry Pi is not optimized for low power consumption, so if you're
looking to run off of battery you might have better luck with other
board-based computers which are a bit more careful about power. I've heard
good things about Beaglebone.
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hich are a bit more careful about power. I've heard
>> good things about Beaglebone.
>>
>> best wishes,
>> jesse
>>
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:39 AM, John Kearney
>>> wrote:
>>> Thanks Jerald. I find it very interesting to learn what oth
-batteries. Perhaps
no such thing exists as yet. I suspect even Beaglebone would require more power
than that?
John
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Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Migrants 5/24/16
Hi John, I'm in Delaware, I meant to include that and forgot. Yes, I record
overnight, and I save calls that I hear live. I'm using a mic that I built
loosely
Hi Jerald,
This looks and sounds like a Spotted Sandpiper to me. When I’m searching for
Spotted Sandpiper in my recordings, I set the detector to 4 – 5 kHz. The
Solitary Sandpipers that have passed through here in Nova Scotia are 6 kHz or
more on the upper part of the spectrogram.
John
Hi All,
To enhance this listserv as a learning medium, I think it is important to try
to find a consensus on identification questions. After looking at more low
frequency flight calls (including those on Paul Driver’s blog), I also agree
that Orchard Oriole is the best choice.
John
From:
Hi Geoff, Ken, and Benjamin,
Unknown1 suggests Bluebird to me. The spectrogram impression is similar to
Mountain, but the sound and higher frequency is more like Eastern.
John
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Hi Dan and all,
Thanks for your summary of your recent paper. I look forward to hearing more
about your study of the alternatives that might explain these results. It seems
to me that your work indicates that in the future we should include some
measure of light levels as part of the metadata
Hi Geoff,
There is a call of Least Bittern on the sound site, Dendroica, that is
similar to your recording. It's the last one listed on the Canadian version
of the site.
Thanks for raising the question about activity on this list. While I've
played an active role on the NFC Facebook group, I
Hi Andrew,
Many thanks to you and the eBird team for clarifying the NFC protocol. Your
efforts and time commitment are much appreciated.
I would, however, like to take you up on your offer to write a separate email
about automated processing and automated recording units. I would be very
Hi All,
As a follow-up to Debbie's question about processing night flight calls with
Raven Pro, I recall that Laura Gooch recently raised the dilemma of the
great amount of work required in processing lower frequency, thrush-like
calls, due to traffic noise. I have a problem with ambient noise
Hi Debbie
I sent you Raven Pro preset files as an attachment for high and low frequency
detection that are used by the Cornell Lab (where they were given to me).
However, if you are like me, you may not be comfortable dropping files from a
stranger into your Raven Pro folders. So here are the
Is anyone familiar with Ipswich Sparrow night flight calls and might the
attached be one?
Thanks
John
PS. The wav file is unfiltered and will sound clearer in a sound editing
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Hi Andrew and All,
Thank you for your response to my email. The changes to the protocol seem
reasonable to me.
I believe having this information on eBird will generate even more interest in
this field of bird studies.
John
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Hi Andrew:
Thanks to you and your team for reviewing this subject. It is a very important
and timely to develop this protocol, and your consideration of this matter is
much appreciated. I have read the protocol a couple of times and look forward
to begin entering my remote data in eBird. I do
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Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Any help appreciated
I'm not very good at just looking at the spectrograms (and not being able to
hear the sound), but this looks similiar to Gold-crown
I had two calls last name that I can't figure out. The first one looks like
a Northern Waterthrush but I don't think it is especially as it was preceded
by a few seconds by the second call attached. The sound is not very clear so
I didn't include it.
Thank you.
John
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Francis,Charles [NCR]
Sent: September 20, 2012 18:26
To: John Kearney; Erik Johnson; Nocturnal Flight Call ListServe
Subject: RE: [nfc-l] ID of NFCs
John et al.,
For many purposes related to bird monitoring, recording a best-guess
light call complex "identification"?
Erik Johnson
S Lafayette, LA
ejohn33 AT lsu.edu
ejohnson AT audubon.org
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:07 AM, John Kearney
wrote:
The discussion today reminds me of a similar train of thought that I've been
pondering lately. Namely, in toda
The discussion today reminds me of a similar train of thought that I've been
pondering lately. Namely, in today's world of birding and ornithology, we
require a high of degree of certainty when it comes to documenting the
classification of our observations to the species level. Basically,
There have been very heavy nocturnal movements over Northern Nova Scotia the
last few nights.
Night of September 7-8: 1,561 night flight calls recorded on the 21c of which
about 1,300 occurred between 8 pm and midnight.
Night of September 8-9: 369 night flight calls
Night of September 9-10:
I've been conducting nightly recording and analysis of nocturnal migration
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I’ve been night monitoring using an Old Bird 21c since July 8th here in
northern Nova Scotia. I’ve had a total of 163 flight calls recorded. These
breakdown to:
79 Plovers and Sandpipers
5 Thrushes
51 Warblers
4 Sparrows
24 Miscellaneous
The shorebirds are clearly migrants but I’m not
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John,
This both visually and aurally is most similar to Palm Warbler NFC, of all
the species represented in the "descending seeps" table in the Evans and
O'Brien CD-ROM.
Other thoughts?
Sincerely,
Can anyone help me with the attached call, recorded about 5 hours after
sunset last night over Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
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I have a recording station on the coast of the Northumberland Strait (Gulf
of St. Lawrence) in northern Nova Scotia. I tend to be slow on the analysis.
John
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