Andrew, I'm not aware of any widely-agreed-upon list. Together with my graduate student Claire Sanders, I recently published a paper in *Condor: Ornithological Advances* where we compared NFC monitoring to banding data in eastern Lake Erie: Acoustic monitoring of nocturnally migrating birds accurately assesses the timing and magnitude of migration through the Great Lakes by Claire E. Sanders and Daniel J. Mennill In comparison to banding data, we show that NFC recordings accurately predict the timing and the magnitude of migration. As part of that study, we developed a list of NFC that are unique. There is an online supplement to the paper, including a list of the birds that we assigned to a "bioacoustic category" (multiple species with similar calls), and a list of birds that we considered unique. We included many spectrograms in that supplement. You can find the paper and the supplement on the journal *Condor*'s website (http://www.aoucospubs.org/toc/cond/116/3). I'd be happy to share my personal copy with people if they can't access *Condor*.
I'm curious to know if there are other lists. I'm also interested in whether other people have developed the capacity to distinguish between some of the species that Claire and I grouped together into bioacoustic categories. Dan Dan Mennill Associate Professor Faculty of Science Research Chair in Environment and Ecosystems Department of Biological Sciences University of Windsor Email: dmenn...@uwindsor.ca Web: www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill <http://www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Albright <andrew.albri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an agree-upon list of NFC that are unique? I.e. There is little > or no overlap with other species so that when you hear this call you can be > reasonably certain what species. > > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
