Re: [nfc-l] Mystery Calls
Jay's suggestion is a good one, when possible given how folks are making recordings. One note to Ken and others: I almost always listen to NFCs at quarter speed, with a filter on so that I only hear the frequency range of the call (and not the low frequency stuff that would blast my ears at quarter speed). I can hear the calls a full speed, but I can't differentiate them very well full speed. Slowing them down makes the distinctions clearer. Laura On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 8:21 AM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg wrote: Thank you Jay. I cannot hear most of the clips posted here. This is apparently a "thing" where some people can hear the bird sounds in these short clips and others cannot. I just hear a burst of static. Please put enough ambient sound on BOTH sides of the bird sound for our ears to hear the sound in its proper context. Thanks Ken Sent from my iPhone On May 2, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Jay McGowan wrote: Hey all,I've posted this before, but I would implore folks posting example recordings to this list to leave a few seconds of sound before and after the call in question so you can actually hear it. With only a second-long recording, all I hear is a burst of sound with no time for my ear to acclimate to the background noise. The same goes for audio upload to eBird. We suggest leaving three seconds, if possible, before the first and after the last vocalization in the recording before upload. Thanks! Jay On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Preston Lust wrote: Thank you very much for responding. Here is another example. I think lesser yellowlegs could be an option. Thoughts? From, Preston Lust -- -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu --NFC-L List Info:Welcome and BasicsRules and InformationSubscribe, Configuration and LeaveArchives:The Mail ArchiveSurfbirdsBirding.ABA.OrgPlease submit your observations toeBird!-- --NFC-L List Info:Welcome and BasicsRules and InformationSubscribe, Configuration and LeaveArchives:The Mail ArchiveSurfbirdsBirding.ABA.OrgPlease submit your observations to eBird!-- -- 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 Birding.ABA.Org � http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC Please submit your observations to eBird! ��http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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 of false hits, making screening time-consuming. However, I do know that we had significant thrush movement the night of September 8-9, undoubtedly mostly Swainson's. I heard them while outside both evening and morning. John -- are your results higher frequency only, or did you actually have no thrushes at all? Laura Laura GoochCleveland Heights, Ohio _ From: John Kearney Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 08:40 Subject: RE: [nfc-l] NFCs Week of 9/3 through 9/9 To: 'Meena Madhav Haribal' , 'Jerald' , 'NFC-L' 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 From: bounce-120772655-28417...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-120772655-28417...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Meena Madhav Haribal Sent: September-11-16 08:25 To: NFC-L ; Jerald Subject: Re: [nfc-l] NFCs Week of 9/3 through 9/9 Hi Jerald and all, I think I fared slightly better than Jerald. I had a few calls at least each day. But no thrushes or thrush-like calls! Here are my totals. 2-Sep 81 3-Sep 197 4-Sep 213 5-Sep 153 6-Sep 150 7-Sep 106 8-Sep 19 9-Sep 5 10-Sep 48 11-Sep 16 A total of 988 calls. I have not yet dared to classify all the calls but definitely there were lots of Ovenbirds, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, Savannah Sparrows, Black-throated green types, Chestnut-sideds, a few No. Parulas and a few Black-thorated blues. Very rarely American Redstart. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf From: bounce-120772320-10061...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Jerald Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 12:03:29 AM To: NFC-L Subject: [nfc-l] NFCs Week of 9/3 through 9/9 Hello all, Despite the winds shifting to the south this week, I had more calls than last week, with a total of 236. Below are the numbers per night, as well as the numbers per species (estimated individuals in parentheses). Veery was once again the most common bird. 9/3 87 calls 9/4 104 calls 9/5 11 calls 9/6 34 calls 9/7 1 call 9/8 0 calls 9/9 0 calls Green Heron 16 (5) American Redstart 21 (8)Black-and-white Warbler 2 (2)Black-throated Blue warbler 3 (1)Northern Parula 3 (1)Northern Waterthrush 3 (2)Ovenbird 17 (6)Warbler Sp. 61Veery 89 (30)Thrush Sp. 1Bobolink 11 (8)Bird Sp. 8Passerine Sp. 1 I have uploaded several of my clearer unknown warbler calls to ebird, if anyone cares to identify them. I believe that one is a Bay-breasted, one is a Parula, and I'm not sure on the other two, though the ascending call could be Yellow-rumped.http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31521300 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31521276http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31521225 JeraldDelaware-- Jerald -- 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: 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: 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/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/ --
[nfc-l] Cape May Warbler
Folks, This has been bothering me for quite a while... I get a significant number of the calls illustrated in this clip from the night of 29-30 August, 2016, and the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve (about 0.3 km from the south shore of Lake Erie, east side of Cleveland). The only thing that seems to match is Cape May Warbler, but we see only a handful of Cape Mays here. Does anyone have a suggestion for a different ID? Am I missing something obvious? If not, do others also see a disproportionate number of Cape May calls? Thanks, Laura -- 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/ -- CHOH_CLNP_0829.wav Description: Wave audio
RE:[nfc-l] Possible Ovenbird
On Monday, May 16, 2016 10:32 AM, Laura Gooch wrote: Jerald, I'll second Chris here. This looks like a more classic "double-banded up" group (Nashville, Tennessee, Orange-crowned, etc.) to me, rather than an Ovenbird. Are you familiar with the 2014 paper by Sanders and Mennill that has a nice table of spectrograms? If not, you can get the PDF and the table (in the Supplementary info) from Dan Mennill's page here : Dan Mennill's Publications | | | | | | | | | | | Dan Mennill's PublicationsDanMennill's Publications | 2000| 2001| 2002| 2003| 2004| 2005| 2006| 2007| 2008| 2009| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016| | | | | View on web2.uwindsor.ca | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | Even though I'd been working on NFC for several years before this came out, I find the table a convenient summary. Laura GoochCleveland Heights, Ohio On Monday, May 16, 2016 9:48 AM, Jerald Reb wrote: I'm not sure. I'll look through my recordings later. Jerald Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: Hi Jerald, It seems plausible that this could be an Ovenbird, but it doesn’t look/sound “classic” to me. Do you have other examples of these calls, which might be closer/louder? Thanks! Sincerely,Chris T-H On May 14, 2016, at 10:20 PM, Jerald wrote: I've had several of these calls this week. I think they're OVEN, but I'm not sure. JeraldDelaware -- Jerald --NFC-L List Info:Welcome and BasicsRules and InformationSubscribe, Configuration and LeaveArchives:The Mail ArchiveSurfbirdsBirdingOnThe.NetPlease submit your observations toeBird!-- --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/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/ --
[nfc-l] Comparison of Detection Methods
Folks, I'm wondering if anyone has done a formal (or informal but documented) comparison of flight call detections using different methods. Specifically, I'm interested in comparisons of the Raven Band Limited Energy Detectors vs. Bill Evans' Tseep and Thrush vs. hand browsing. Thanks for any information. Laura Gooch Cleveland Heights, Ohio -- 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/ --
[nfc-l] Fall Migration - 2013 - Cleveland Heights, Ohio
I finally "finished" analyzing my night flight call data from last fall. Results for those interested are posted here: http://listeningup.wordpress.com/summary-of-night-flight-calls-detected/ The "calls detected by species" link includes tables of calls detected. I wish I was more confident in some of my species IDs... To celebrate, I put my spring microphones out today. I do still have another entire set of data for last fall from another location... Laura GoochCleveland Heights, Ohio -- 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/ --
Fw: [nfc-l] More on processing night flight calls
John, > > >Thanks for posting this. I've thought about doing this, but had not gotten >around to trying it. I'll give it a try when I have a chance. > >Laura > > > > > > >> >> From: John Kearney >>To: nfc-l@cornell.edu >>Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 3:41 PM >>Subject: [nfc-l] More on processing night flight calls >> >> >> >>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 from frequent and >>sustained rain and wind at one my listening sites. It is not unusual to get >>30 to 80 thousand detections in a single night. So I’ve been experimenting >>with bandwidth filters to filter out some of the wind and rain noise, and >>have had some considerable success. For the low frequency band, I’ve been >>using a minimum bandwidth filter of 100 Hz and a maximum of 500 Hz with >>energy percentile of 40%. This has reduced my detections by as much as >>two-thirds or more with little change in the number of true positives. For >>exceptionally bad weather, it is necessary to increase the energy percentile >>to 50 or 60%. This will pull out the “loudest calls” and then you can go back and do a more specific search for calls in the time period where these calls were detected. >>Has anyone else used bandwidth filters in this way and would you willing to >>share your findings? >>Thanks, >>John >> >>-- >>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/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/ --
[nfc-l] Last night (Sept 5-6) in Cleveland
There was a big push here last night, too. I picked up over 1000 warbler/sparrow calls at my house in Cleveland Heights (east side of Cleveland). I'm not counting thrushes at the moment (too much traffic and insect noise for detectors to work), but I noticed some thrushes in passing, too. Laura Gooch -- 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/ --
Re: [nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Minimal Migration or Population Decline?
My own impression from northeast Ohio is that the breeding bird population is fairly normal, with an apparent lack of Scarlet Tanager. I checked with a couple of friends who are involved with different kinds of breeding bird surveys, and their impressions are the same as mine. Laura Gooch Cleveland Heights --- On Mon, 6/17/13, david nicosia wrote: From: david nicosia Subject: Re: [nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Minimal Migration or Population Decline? To: Joan E. Collins , Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Cc: NYSBIRDS-L , NFC-L , Sean OBrien , Chris Rimmer , northern_ny_bi...@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, June 17, 2013, 9:58 PM This is anecdotal. But each year I do an informal survey of the singing males at NewMichigan State Forest in Pharsalia Chenango County, NY. I try very hard to not recount birds and I have been doing this almost yearly since 2009. This is a boreal like forest...one of the few you can find outside the Catskills and Adirondacks in the highlands of central NY. This year I found all typical boreal breeders to be as common as past years. BLACKBURNIAN, MAGNOLIA WARBLERS were most abundant like other years as well as tons of OVENBIRDS. My total numbers were a bit down but I did not have time to do a couple roads that I did past years. If I did these roads I have no doubt numbers who have been comparable to other years. The dawn chorus was very active. This is just one spotso hard to make any conclusions here. I am assuming this is just this year for many of you? If so, it has to be weather related. If it is a gradual decline through the years...then one would think it could be habitat changes...possibly wintering grounds and/or breeding grounds?? Of course, if resident birds are not as common either as has been stated...is there a disease affecting birds??? lets hope they rebound. Quite spring/summer woodlands is just downright depressing. From: Joan E. Collins To: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Cc: NYSBIRDS-L ; NFC-L ; Sean OBrien ; Chris Rimmer ; northern_ny_bi...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:35 PM Subject: RE:[nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Minimal Migration or Population Decline? Hi Chris/All, I am out every day and I have not noticed any improvement. As I walk through the forest (or bogs), the lack of birds is all I can think about. I am surprised this has not been a dominant discussion on our NYS Birds list serve. It is so disturbing and everyone is anxiously awaiting BBS data for this year – but of course roadside surveys don’t work well for many species. I can barely find a Lincoln’s Sparrow (I jump up and down when I hear one now) – a species that is normally abundant in our Adirondack bogs. Canada Warbler numbers are way down. I have also noticed the same lack of species that you listed (although, I have not noticed a lack of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in northern NY). Indigo Bunting is another species that is hard to find. Scarlet Tanager, Veery….I could keep going… Chris Rimmer, Director of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, emailed about the lack of neotropical migrants in e-central VT, and he is hearing the same thing from others – how quiet the forests are this spring. He has noticed that Swainson’s Thrush numbers are down up on Mount Mansfield in VT. I’ve been finding a few more on dawn tours up Whiteface Mountain since the Memorial Day Weekend 3-foot snowfall melted away. I plan to conduct the Mountain Birdwatch survey of that peak on Thursday, and the results should shed some light on Swainson’s Thrush numbers (at least in high elevation), in addition to numbers for all the other species we tally for that survey (I have the data from last year to compare to). Jeff Nadler, photographer, just emailed about a 3 day trip he took to boreal habitat areas in northern VT & NH, which he visits every year, and the lack of birds this year. He noticed not only a lack of neotropical migrants, but also a lack of year-round boreal species! He echoed the same thing everyone is noticing – the forests are “quiet” with no loud dawn chorus. I think we are all wondering the same question: “What happened?” I hope this question will eventually have an answer. Joan CollinsLong Lake, NY From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes [mailto:c...@cornell.edu] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 11:17 AM To: Joan E. Collins Cc: NYSBIRDS-L; NFC-L; Sean OBrien Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Minimal Migration or Population Decline? Thank you, Joan, for this anecdotal evidence. Since it has been a couple of weeks now, Im curious to know if anyone has noted an improvement in their local area birding spots, or if it has been more of the same. For me, Ive noted a serious lack of typical neighborhood birds that used to be a regular part of the acoustic atmosphere: Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole and Red-eyed Vireo, just to name a
Re: [nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Minimal Migration or Population Decline?
I don't have enough years of data to say anything veryuseful about night calls during migration here (east side of Cleveland, Ohio). However, I do know that we had a very light spring banding season. I believe that the banding season at Black Swamp Bird Observatory, on the south shore of Lake Erie about 30 km east of Toledo (a few km east of Magee Marsh), was also light to moderate. They have over 20 years of banding data at BSBO, and I believe that they do note light years in which winds seem to favor migrants staying farther west as they move north. On the other hand, I know Mark Shieldcastle (research director at BSBO) was concerned about mortality from the repeated periods of unseasonably cold weather in the south central part of the country. I'm still analyzing my data for this spring. Most of what I've counted and ID'd so far is posted here: http://listeningup.wordpress.com/summary-of-night-flight-calls-detected/ If some of you more experienced folks have a chance to take a look, I'm curious how these numbers compare to what other stations detect. I'm counting from 1/2 hours after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunset, which will mean that I have few more hits than the 1 hour after/before protocol, but this won't have much impact since I generally don't get many hits in these periods. In addition, some of these nights still need a second pass that will result in some adjustment of the numbers. I don't expect the change to be more than 5% or so, mostly in the downward direction as I eliminate a few possible hits that I previously flagged for further examination. Unfortunately, I my ID efforts haven't caught up to the days when significant warbler migration might be expected to begin. Laura GoochCleveland Heights, Ohio --- On Tue, 6/4/13, birde...@yahoo.com wrote: From: birde...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Minimal Migration or Population Decline? To: "Joan E. Collins" Cc: "Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes" , "NYSBIRDS-L" , "" Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 6:36 PM All, My delayed, or lack there of, sightings of many migratory-Adirondack-breeding-species would fall in the same vein as what everyone else is seeing. However, watching the Doppler radar patterns(which I did over much of May) of spring migration species, show just what Chris has mentioned...there were many nights when birds came up along the Mississippi corridor due to that long lasting, and blocking weather pattern through much of early May(or somewhere around that time!). And also as Chris mentions, birds may have flown to the Great Lakes region(on favorable winds)and finally found some westerlies to get them to eastern breeding grounds. This could(?) explain why we missed so much in May.Did we see higher (easterly) migration patterns around the Great Lakes(Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo?)I hope we can get some more birder-input on this fascinating topic! Brian McAllisterSaranac Lake On Jun 4, 2013, at 4:11 PM, "Joan E. Collins" wrote: Thank you for this interesting post Chris. This has been a dominate topic of discussion among many birders in the Adirondacks. Sean O’Brien and I have been talking every few days wondering what has happened to many neotropical migrants this year. I mentioned the low numbers of Blackpoll Warblers and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers on Whiteface Mountain in my earlier post today, but numbers of most neotropical migrants appear way down. Sean keeps remarking that there is no dawn chorus this year. Even my non-birder husband has been noting the lack of birds this spring. Normally, you can’t sleep past 4:30 a.m. in our house at this time of year because of the remarkable dawn sounds outside our bedroom window, but it feels more like late summer every morning with the lack of songs. I was aware of the weather-related fallout on the Gulf Coast of Texas in April, and I had to wonder, with so many birds too exhausted to be afraid of humans, how many may have perished unseen over the Gulf? Migration seemed highly unusual this year. Normally, species like Blue-headed Vireo would suddenly fill the forests overnight. This year, I found ONE, and then a week went by and I found a second one, then several days went by and they began to arrive in a trickle. Species were, for the most part, late arriving and they trickled in. We have been waiting for the forests to fill, but it hasn’t happened and it is now June 4th. In a section of Massawepie Mire that is normally filled with breeding Canada Warblers, we heard one on Saturday. It is definitely worrisome. As you mentioned, BBS surveys may help document the apparent population declines. Thanks again for your thoughts about possible reasons for such worrisome declines. I too, would be interested to hear the thoughts of other birders on this topic. Joan CollinsLong Lake, NY From: bounce-98052797-13418...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-98052797-13418...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
[nfc-l] ID Help
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what this call that showed up at my house about 4:30 this morning might be? It's not a very good recording, I'm afraid, but it seems pretty distinctive. Thanks, Laura -- 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/ --<> NFC_121102_0427.wav Description: Wave audio
Re: [nfc-l] Gray-cheeked Thrush Examples
Chris, Thanks! This kind of thing is very useful to those of us on the lower reaches of the learning curve. Laura --- On Thu, 10/4/12, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Subject: [nfc-l] Gray-cheeked Thrush Examples To: "NFC-L" Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 1:40 PM For those interested, here are some examples of typical Gray-cheeked Thrush night flight calls from some recent nights over Etna, NY. 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/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/ --
[nfc-l] Movement in northeast Ohio - 9/30-10/1
There was a significant movement of sparrows and warblers in northeast Ohio the night of September 30 / October 1. I picked up 778 warbler/sparrow calls between 1/2 hour after sunset and 1/2 hour before sunrise (using a Raven BLED). Lots of White-throated Sparrows and a variety of others. I haven't had time to look at the thrush frequencies yet. Laura Gooch Cleveland Heights, Ohio -- 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/ --
[nfc-l] Odd call sequence - 1 of 2
Folks, I caught the attached call sequence at my house east of Cleveland, Ohio, about 21:30 on the night of September 24. Thoughts from me and a couple of knowledgeable friends are Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Northern Mockingbird. A mockingbird would be a bit surprising here. I've seen two in my yard over the past 10 years, but I've never heard one calling in this part of the Cleveland area. They do breed in small numbers in a few locations around Cleveland, though, especially on the Lake Erie shore (about 6 km from my house as the mocker flies). Interestingly, I caught this on my sky-pointing exponential horn, but not on my 21C, which suggests that the bird was quite high overhead (or it would have been picked up by both mics). I'd appreciate any thoughts about what this series might be. Because the whole sequence is a bit over a minute, I've attached it as an MP3 file and broken it into two pieces to keep the size within the listserv limits. Part 2 will be in a separate email. The two parts overlap at the (very obvious) chatter/click call. If anyone would like the .wav file, I'd be happy to send it along. Thanks, Laura Gooch -- 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/ -- 20120924_2129_Riff_1of2.mp3 Description: audio/mpeg
Fw: [nfc-l] roll call!
I'll be recording in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (east side of Cleveland, about 7 km from Lake Erie as the warbler flies). I'll be using one of Bill Evans' new OldBird rigs and another mic that seems to do a little better with thrushes, but not as well with sparrow/warblers. I'm planning to start April 15. Laura Gooch - Forwarded Message From: David La Puma To: NFC-L Sent: Mon, April 2, 2012 11:54:49 PM Subject: [nfc-l] roll call! Can we get an update on where people are recording this spring? Is anyone recording in Wisconsin or elsewhere in the Upper Midwest? We've had a number of nights of moderate to heavy migration over the last two weeks and I'd be interested to know how the night listening is going. I personally haven't been out at night and my mic is still in a disassembled state since moving out here at the end of December... I hope to get it up and running soon, but in the meantime... is there anybody OUT there? good listening! David David A. La Puma Postdoctoral Associate Aeroecology Program Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware Visiting Scientist SILVIS Lab (http://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/) University of Wisconsin, Madison Teaching/Research Profile: http://www.woodcreeper.com/teaching Websites: http://www.woodcreeper.com http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com -- 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/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/ --
