readable.
So I'd really like to start with some easy ones pretty much the
equivalent of going birding for the first time and only worrying about
ID'ing American Robins, chickadees, Mourning Doves, Northern
Cardinals, etc.
Sincerely,
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ver noticed Lesser giving more
> than two "deers" in a row. Also, to my ears, the quality for Lesser
> Yellowlegs is a little different, not as full as Greater Yellowlegs and is
> sharper.
>
> For those interested, I've attached the modified sound file in the hope that
> it is e
in
Wissahickon Watershed
From: Andrew Albright
Recorded and heard 100+ Swainson's Thrush this morning from 5:30-6:10am in
Montgomery Co. Heaviest night or pre-dawn flight that I've heard this season by
a factor of 10.
Same held true for my pre-dawn chorus route in Andorra (Philadelphia). There
were
doesn't have much audio for Black-bellied Plover, but what is does
have is a fairly similar.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes
wrote:
> Here is Andrew's cleaned-up sound in question.
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris T-H
>
> Andrew Albright wrote:
>
> &g
Does anyone have recordings of Savannah Sparrows that they'd like to share?
I have a couple of recordings of what I think are Savannah, but the
Evans/O'Brien CD doesn't have recordings - only the sonagrams.
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believe smaller than Blackbirds/Starlings). I can't match the flight
calls to anything and tried to attach the file but my message got
bounced back.
The calls are at 6-8 kHZ, somewhat burry, often double notes.
Sincerely,
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Albright
wrote
een spring and fall nfc?
3. When do the sparrows start migrating in the spring? With the
winter that we've had, it's hard to tell if the birds from Jan and
early Feb died, decided to move further south, or have already
departed to the north.
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have been backed up recently with all the rain and northern
winds. Wind is out of the WSW tonight. But, is it still to early for
a big spring NFC?
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So for the Northeast or at least Mid-Atlantic, I guess this is it
(finally)...tonights the night? I plan on recording the next 3
nights.
One question - is there a user friendly website showing wind speeds at
the altitudes at which birds migrate? Either that or is there an
explanation for the
Bryan, Thanks for that easy-to-read website. It is pretty simple afterall.
Anyone record last night? I was all excited for spring recording
minus all the insects like I hear in the fall. However, I didn't
fully realize how early the American Robins start up. I'm estimating
that it was about
Saturday night, I recorded something that sounded like a "fast" Willow
Flycatcher's "fitzspew" call. In addition to not sounding exactly
like it, it is a little early for Willow in Southern Delaware.
Location - southern Delaware ~2am.
However, I checked Evans/Obrien's guide and they give
, Andrew Albright
wrote:
> Saturday night, I recorded something that sounded like a "fast" Willow
> Flycatcher's "fitzspew" call. In addition to not sounding exactly
> like it, it is a little early for Willow in Southern Delaware.
> Location - southern Delaware ~2
I didn't end up with many recorded nfc's in the 2 hours before dawn on
Saturday the 11th, although there were decent numbers of migrants seen after
daylight.
Here's a cutdown of anything I could detect by ear:
http://soundcloud.com/user3781125/ws501330-cutdown
I think I hear (and see) a Veery,
see a lot of green on the radar* (not
blue) - so I'm having a hard time.
Sincerely,
Andrew Albright
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" I can theorize how it might happen,"
I would be interested to hear the theories. Does it have anything to
do with this area being the Rainwater Basin area? It would be late
for sandhill cranes.Are the ducks all gone?How about
shorebirds? I could be wrong, but compared to back east
Here outside of Philly (NW) the clouds have disappeared and there is
actually a full moon and winds out of the south.
Should there still be good possibilities for nfc's tonight or are we
getting too late in the migration season?
Sincerely,
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Maple Glen, PA
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just
listened to Stokes shorebirds as that was my first guess)
2) My best guess is Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper. Would these be
reasonable guesses based on location and time? If anyone likes to
listen to poor WMA files and wants an ID challenge, I can email you
what I have.
Sincerely,
Andrew
and there's no
reliable radar to look at for this area (slightly northwest of
Philly).
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Just checked again and there are huge numbers of thrushes but they are
fairly faint. Still lots of insect noise.
On 9/8/11, Andrew Albright wrote:
> Well it seems like it's been since spring since there was any night
> flight. The surface and lower level winds seem to
.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Andrew Albright
wrote:
> Attached is a sequence from this morning. I forget the size limit of
> files, but this is 918k, so hopefully it will go through.
>
> Here are my guesses
> 0.5 sec - Swainson's
> 3.8 sec - Swainson's
> 4.3 sec - Wood Th
on a different course - southwest.
I wasn't able to hear either of them.
The last two nights were overcast here. I'm sure those that have done
this enough have had heavy flights where they could moonwatch - that
would be fun.
Sincerely,
Andrew Albright
Maple Glen, PA
*At least for the mid
Ebird is seen or heard.
On 9/17/11, Ted Floyd wrote:
> Well! The most intriguing part of Benjamin's posting is surely the last
> line of the NFC-L sig file.
>
> How DO you submit nocturnal flight call observations to eBird?
>
> Best,
> Ted
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Michael O'Brien wrote:
> Ted et al,
> In heavy flights, usually record an x for each species and indicate the
> number of calls/minute in the comment field (for each species, if possible).
> Anyone with better ideas?
I don't think you should use an "X" because
All,
Cool description!
Varied Thrush doesn't appear to be on the oldbird CD. Can someone post
a night flight call clip?
Sincerely,
Andrew
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jay Withgott wrote:
>
> Gerard --
> Since Jim is undoubtedly enjoying a flood of migrants this morning after
> what has
I've still been recording 6-8 hours a night and then listening* about
1-2 hours every day. It's down to about 3-6 calls per hour. The
first part of November has been warm here, so that might have slowed
things down some.
How long into fall migration do people record/listen? I don't suppose
I just got back from running (more than 3 hours after nightfall) and I
heard a Killdeer fly overhead!
I'm in southeastern PA and this is very rare bird in the winter for
this county. Sodoes this count as a night flight? What in the
world is this bird doing?
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I'm probably recording the same place I did last fall - Maple Glen, Pa
(about 10 miles NW of Philly).
I tried this a couple of springs ago and the robins drove me crazy but that
was at a different location.
In the mid-Atlantic, tonight might be pretty good? It's been a while since
there wasn't
for
Montgomery County is only 35.
Andrew Albright
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Rob Fergus wrote:
> Just processed my recording from last night and had about 170 Tseep
> calls. After a couple weeks of north winds and 1-4 detections a night,
> things are hopping now!
>
> Rob
When I checked the weather a few days ago, it looked like tomorrow (Friday)
night could be really big. However, I just checked the radar and it looks
like the whole Eastern half of the US is on fire with migration. I stuck
my head outside and heard a decent number of calls per minute (5-10).
Mike - I enjoy reading your reports, so keep 'em coming!
I'm no expert, but I think when I asked the question before it seems
that the general idea is that nfc are easier to detect in the first
couple of hours and then around dawn as birds will be flying at lower
elevations (and they can get so
I recorded nfc from 2-5am this morning. Diversity and quantity is pretty good.
At about 2:30am I had a single monotone "whoo" that reminded me of
Long-eared owl recordings (Stokes) except that it was slightly higher
pitched. Then ~30 minutes later, I heard the same single "whoo" again
except
LEOW calls outside of the breeding season?
>
> Benjamin Van Doren
>
> On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Andrew Albright
> wrote:
>
>> I recorded nfc from 2-5am this morning. Diversity and quantity is pretty
>> good.
>>
>> At about 2:30am I had a sin
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
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. Kinglet that
I've recorded recently during the day. And the only other doublet of
common birds that I can think of for common birds is Dark-Eyed Junco?
On Sat,
I have actually done this for the thrushes found on the East Coast to
help learn them. I have sonagrams and then audio imbedded into
powerpoint. I have it on my computer at home.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Andy Martin wrote:
> Hello NFCers,
>
> I am preparing a talk about Recording NFCs
Very cool info graphics!
http://www.oldbird.org/Data/2013/TransNE2013/31-7Sep/Total.html
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Bill Evans wrote:
> Some patterns of songbird nocturnal migration across NY the past few
> weeks as indicated by nocturnal flight calls:
>
"What is the theory for decreased contact/NFC calls as the night wears on?"
I thought one hypothesis(?) was that in the middle of the night the birds
are actually too high to be able to hear?
Has anyone ever tested empirically what elevation birds migrate at? I
would think this would be
Paul or others - do you have the link to the xeno canto discussion?
Two years ago, we had some discussion here -
http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/msg00509.html
There is some good information in that thread.
Without reading the xeno canto thread, it seems that there is an inbetween
Hello,
Does anyone have a pdf copy of the following article?
Drury, W. H. and Keith, J. A. (1962), RADAR STUDIES OF SONGBIRD MIGRATION
IN COASTAL NEW ENGLAND. Ibis, 104: 449–489.
doi: 10./j.1474-919X.1962.tb08681.x
Sincerley,
Andrew Albright
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A kind person already sent a copy!
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Albright
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a pdf copy of the following article?
>
>
> Drury, W. H. and Keith, J. A. (1962), RADAR STUDIES OF SONGBIRD MIGRATION
> IN COASTAL NEW ENGLAND. Ibis
I haven't followed every night over the last 7-10 days but every time
I check (like last night), the radar doesn't show much movement (see
attached for last night). Has anyone been paying attention every
night?Is there going to be a big flight soon?
Also, this isn't birds, but thought it
I would love to be able to hook my mic up to my smartphone and have an app
that shows sonagrams in real time.
But right now I have an inexpensive workflow that works.
Sony bidirectional mic $55
Olympus recorder that records in mp3
---digital voice recorder ws-500m
I also bought a scientific
ones
and I pickup more than I do by ear alone.
For night flight I leave this outside without worry of the microphone
getting wet (I put the recorder in a plastic bag).
All for not much more than a 100 bucks.
https://m.soundcloud.com/user3781125/pileated1
Sincerely,
Andrew Albright
On Friday, Jul
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.
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I'm a bit southeast from you in Montgomery County. I've only started
recording the last two nights with very few NFC heard (less than 5 per
hour). I've heard no thrushes.
Is it possible the Veery are just doing short range post breeding migration?
Tonight looks to be much better on the radar
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Albright
> wrote:
>>
>> Is there an agree-u
down into
background information and actionable instructions.
3) It would be good to push to have the smartphone app upgraded to enable
more functionality that includes easy logging of the NFC protocol.
Sincerely,
Andrew Albright
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> On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Andrew Albright
> wrote:
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> Ken (and Chris*),
>
> I have a different interpretation of the ebird NFC rules/guide
I agree on all points.
On Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Rob Fergus wrote:
> I love this list. Wish it were more active. I’m wondering how much
> interest there might be to start an NFC group on Facebook? I’d
> particularly like to be able to share more recordings and spectrograms for
>
*Bird counting:* We ask that you count the number of calls and, when
possible, try to estimate the number of birds present.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Brian Henderson via eBird <
ebird-rev...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>
> I hate to sound like a broken record, but to stress one last
; showing on the eBird data output.
> Thanks,
> Holly Merker
> eBird Pennslyvania
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Andrew Albright <
> andrew.albri...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> *Bird counting:* We ask that you count the number of calls and, when
>> p
I was interested in trying to do both recording and sound processing with
Raspberry Pi. Also has anyone looked into whether there are wifi/Bluetooth
enabled microphones?
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> On May 25, 2016, at 2:46 PM, John Kearney
> wrote:
>
> This looks very promising! Thank you
that's interesting. one thing that I've noticed (or not noticed) is that as
Veery, Hermit thrush, Swainson's come through Pennsylvania in migration
(fall and spring), they don't seem to call at all on the ground during the
day. Very occasionally I'll hear singing of Swainson's. I'm not sure I
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