I'd add that it would be interesting if people want to post nfc's for beginners to identify, to do so for 1-2 days without providing identfication. Then the beginner can try to figure it out and after 1-2 days the experienced nfc'er can indicate what the species is.
Also, is the list of birds in table 1 (http://birds.cornell.edu/pifcapemay/evans_rosenberg.htm) the commonly agreed-upon list of distinguishable (from each other) night flight calls? And is a distinction made between being able to do this by ear versus needing to look at a spectrogram? If we take thrushes for example, it seems that we've discussed the possibility of some overlap between Gray Cheeked and Bicknells. It would be helpful for a beginner to know when to try to figure out a call and when to categorize it as "not identifiable" or it could be one of a few species. Sincerely, Andrew On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening! > > On this slow evening in the Northeast, I am getting caught up on some night > recording data from past nights. Members on the NFC-L eList community may be > most interested in unusual or uncommon species, or perhaps after interesting > trends of more commons species, or are simply here to soak up more knowledge > of this new-found aspect of ornithology. > > I thought I'd take a moment to post a more common sound of night migration > on good nights in August through early September. This Veery was recorded > calling at 12:23pm, on 22 August 2012. I cleaned up some of the cricket > chirps to make for a slightly cleaner recording. This was a surprisingly low > flying and loud migrant for the time of night, perhaps due to a low cloud > ceiling. > > I'll see what I can do about posting some more good examples of other known > species; I encourage others to try and follow suit, because there are > several beginning or out-of-your-region night flight call listeners on this > eList. > > Thanks and good night listening! > > Sincerely, > Chris T-H > > -- > Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes > Field Applications Engineer > Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 > W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp > -- > NFC-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to 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/[email protected]/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/ --
