Dan, The chart (Supplement S1) that you mention is exactly what I was looking for. I'd consider myself a beginner/immediate nfc listener and your chart is a great resource and will save me a lot of time in trying to lookup, identify and confirm my guesses.
For example, I just heard a "tseep" and this chart saves me a lot of time narrowing down my choices on what it might be and that I probably don't need to spend too much time on this one since it could be a bunch of different species. I think that this is one additional nuance (maybe you covery this in your paper) and that is that I think there are definitely intermediate calls where sometimes you can be >95% certain that it is species A or B but then there is an overlap when it could be 50% A and 50% B (Grey-Cheeked vs Bicknell's for example). Sincerely, Andrew On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Joshua Mennill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] > Web: www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Albright <[email protected]> > 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 >> 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/ --
