Perhaps, better yet, might be for people to contribute known NFC's whenever they can and, on top of that, to pull together a periodic NFC quiz, similar to the ABA Online Bird Photo Quizzes.
Sincerely, Chris T-H On Sep 20, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Andrew Albright wrote: 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]<mailto:[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<http://BirdingOnThe.Net> Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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: 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/ --
