[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [clo_brp-l] For you birders

[Chris R. Pelkie]

Forwarding this to the wider birding audience in the area.
We (BRP) have 30 of our newly developed Swift recorders (TARUs or terrestrial 
audio recording units) spread throughout SSW recording 24/7 as part of a 
long-term biodiversity measure.
The avicaching will assist as ground truth as we develop detectors for species 
specific vocalizations, in addition to the noise analysis work we can do now, 
such as airport and route 13 noise patterns.
BTW, the recording sites are marked, a requirement to ensure that no one was 
surreptitiously being recorded.

Cheers,
ChrisP
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Chris Pelkie
Information/Data Manager, Application Systems Analyst
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

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From: Holger Klinck 
mailto:holger.kli...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: [clo_brp-l] For you birders
Date: March 31, 2017 at 08:52:20 EDT
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Reply-To: Holger Klinck 
mailto:holger.kli...@cornell.edu>>


Hi all,

We just finished setting up a avicaching site in eBird in support of our 
Sapsucker Woods monitoring project:

http://ebird.org/content/ebird/avicaching/swamp/

If you happen to go out birding, please consider conducting 5 min bird counts 
at the locations indicated by the website.

Thanks,

Holger

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Dr. Holger Klinck



Director

Assistant Professor

Bioacoustics Research Program

Oregon State University and

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Cornell University

Hatfield Marine Science Center

159 Sapsucker Woods Road

2030 SE Marine Science Drive

Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Newport, OR 97365, USA





Tel: +1.607.254.6250

Email:

Fax:+1.607.254.2460

holger.kli...@oregonstate.edu

Email: holger.kli...@cornell.edu

holger.kli...@noaa.gov




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[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods Acoustic Monitoring Project

[Christopher Wood]

Good afternoon everyone,

The Bioacoustics Research Program and Information Science team at the Cornell 
Lab of Ornithology are collaborating on an initiative that we are calling the 
Sapsucker Woods Acoustic Monitoring Project (SWAMP) to understand the 
complimentary roles of acoustic monitoring and eBirding to develop novel ways 
of understanding bird distribution and abundance.

We need your help. Many of you are already eBirding around Sapsucker Woods – in 
the last three days alone there have been more than 100 checklists submitted 
from various sites around Sapsucker Woods. All eBirding around Sapsucker Woods 
this spring will help with this research. We ask that you also consider 
stationary counts at the 10 sites around Sapsucker Woods. You will find these 
sites on eBird and linked to in the map below, which are called Sapsucker Woods 
Avi1, Sapsucker Woods Avi2 . . . through Sapsucker Woods Avi10.

All you need to do is visit these locations referenced in the map below, submit 
at least one short stationary checklist, and join in the fun. Each checklist 
you submit, earns you one more chance to win prizes, fame, and glory. The 
project starts tomorrow, 1 April 2017. We’ll be collecting this information 
until at least 1 July 2017.

This page has all the information you need:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/avicaching/swamp/

Here are some additional details.

About the Science
The Cornell Lab deployed 30 in-house developed acoustic recorders (called 
SWIFT) which are configured to continuously monitor the soundscape in the 
Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary. Each of the units records acoustic data at 48 kHz 
sampling rate covering the frequency of all bird calls occurring in SWS. 
Scientific objectives we hope to address through this study are briefly 
outlined below:

  *   Ecology of vocalizations.  The sensor array at Sapsucker Woods will allow 
us to get a better handle on variation in behavior/activity/song rates as a 
function of a variety of factors such as the time of day, Julian Date, and 
weather. Comparing these with eBird submissions will also allow us to 
understand how these influence detection rates using two types of methods 
(acoustic, and eBird).
  *   Bird Habitat usage. The collected acoustic data will be used to model 
heterogeneity in detectability of different bird species in SWS with high 
temporal and spatial resolution.
  *   Noise impact assessment. The collected data will allow us to assess how 
noise originating from Highway 13 traffic and the airport (aircraft operations 
including engine ignition, takeoff and landing) propagates throughout the 
sanctuary. We furthermore want to study how the propagation of sound varies 
with environmental conditions (weather, vegetation etc.), and if the 
anthropogenic noise impacts the vocal behavior of birds in the SWS.
  *   Acoustic biodiversity study. The Cornell Lab is currently working with 
several national and international partners on the development of new acoustic 
analysis techniques to extract biodiversity and ecosystem health information 
from acoustic data. Visual bird surveys with avicaching and general eBird 
submissions for the SWS will be crucial to groundtruth our results. The dense 
array of recorders, the extended recording period, and many checklist 
submissions from eBird will provide us with the best possible data set to 
tackle this research project!
  *   Automated Sound ID. The data will also be used within the scope of a new 
Cornell Lab project, BirdVox, which aims to develop advanced methods for the 
detection and classification of bird vocalizations.

Where do I go?
Check out the locations here. If you want 
to load a map on your phone for easier navigation, here’s the Google Map 
link.
 And, of course, these locations are also visible in eBird mobile on iOS and 
Android when you submit checklists.

Scoring
You will earn one point each time you visit an SWAMP avicache and submit a 
complete, stationary checklist of 5-60 minutes duration.

Prizes and Rankings
Each point enters your name once into a random drawing for a prize. For 
example, if you submit 10 qualifying checklists, you have 10 points, and ten 
chances to win. If you have 100 checklists, that’s  100 points = 100 times. 
There will be two winners drawn from participants; each of the prize winners 
will have the choice of a free eBird t-shirt or ballcap and there will be a 
special surprise thrown in as well.
There is also a ranking for the most species seen in Avicache locations: a Top 
100 for the cumulative Avicache list. The eBirder who reports the highest 
species list from all Avicaches cumulatively through the end the Avicaching 
period will win in the species category. As of right now there is no prize for 
this category aside from the glory of seeing the most species. Of course, the 
real pr

[cayugabirds-l] Eastern phoebe.

[Linda Orkin]

Beebe lake 

Ithaca ny

Linda Orkin. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Bird walks-Sapsucker woods Ithaca.

[Linda Orkin]

Weekend bird walks at sapsucker woods continue year round. We switch to the 
earlier time tomorrow. Meet at the visitors center at 7:30. Targeted for 
beginners so they can feel comfortable but great for all levels. Binoculars 
available. Both Saturday and Sunday.

Linda Orkin

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