Cornell Labs puts out a really nice iPhone app called Merlin which includes regional databases, a search ladder to narrow down what you are trying to identify, photos and audio recordings and a brief description. We use it on hikes all the time to ID and try to call the birds we see. Great fun.
73, Brian, K0DTJ > On Mar 7, 2021, at 14:51, kevinr <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is time to prepare for migration season. I scan a few bird books to > memorize identifying marks. Birds normally appear in low contrast locations, > looking little like they do in photos. Habitat and behavior let you narrow > your choices, but I find the best method is to learn their calls. Even if > you don't see them you can mark them off your life list. > > A good source of bird songs is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They have > quite a list of Eastern songbirds as well as other species. This is the same > lab which developed Spectrogram; the program many of us used to adjust our > K2 filters. I need to find a similar site for the Western part of the > continent. Many species pass through on their way to Alaska and Canada. I > only see them one or two days a year. It is my best time for spotting a new > one. > > Now to gather a goodly number of their recordings, and start listening. Much > like CW, it takes practice to learn more species' songs and calls. Some > birds make ten to twenty different sounds. There are a few which can only be > differentiated by their calls; the species look exactly the same. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
