[nfc-l] help with sparrow from Sept. 25
All- I could use some help on this recording from my house in Sand Lake, MI at 2346 hrs on September 25, 2012. It was made with Bill Evans's 21c microphone. Audio: http://soundcloud.com/user9140545/sparrow-sp-sep-25-2012-2346 Sonogram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27846187@N07/8054073788/ The bird was lateral to the microphone a fair ways, perhaps 100m, and so the signal was not picked up as strongly as I had hoped. I was listening on my roof at the time and immediately recognized this as different from the numerous Savannah Sparrows which were flying that night, mainly because of the longer duration note. Depending on how you measure it, it appears to be about 0.15-0.18 seconds long, but I am not clear that the end of the note wasn't cut off due to the poor recording (?) since the bottom band gets 'fuzzy'. I immediately suspected Nelson's (NESP) or Le Conte's Sparrow (LCSP), but the bands don't appear as parallel as the ones for LCSP in Evans and O'Brien (Flight Calls of Migratory Birds) and are not a perfect match for any of the NESP/LCSP recordings I see there. They do seem close to the Fig. 6 recording for NESP from April 26, 1989 in Florida (listed as hypothetical). Can any progress be made on this one, or shall I best leave it as sparrow sp.? Or can I confidently call it an Ammodramus sp., or even Le Conte's/Nelson's? Thanks, Caleb -- Caleb G. Putnam Sand Lake, MI caleb.put...@gmail.com -- 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] roll call!
David et al.- I am listening (and sometimes recording) in Sand Lake MI, at least on big nights where I am home. I have the 21c and use Audacity to capture the recording. Caleb Putnam Sand Lake, MI On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Caitlin Coberly wrote: > Sad to say, my laptop computer has Vista (the worst operating system ever) > and I cannot use it for recording, so nothing from my neck of the woods > this spring L > > ** ** > > ~Caitlin > > ** ** > > *From:* bounce-45148036-10103...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: > bounce-45148036-10103...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *David La Puma > *Sent:* Monday, April 02, 2012 8:55 PM > *To:* NFC-L > *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 <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> > > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/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> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- Caleb G. Putnam Sand Lake, MI caleb.put...@gmail.com -- 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] Recording analysis RFI
I have been recording NFCs since last fall on a casual basis, using a combination of Audacity to capture sounds, Syrinx to extract sounds from the file, and Praat (with a script written by Dave Slager of Ohio State) for viewing and labelling the files. Files are labelled in this format: species_date_military time_no. seconds into recording.wav, then tallied up in an excel spreadsheet by species/category (see 4 below). For a number of reasons, I am now hoping to graduate from this system to RavenPro, and wondering if anyone already using RavenPro could share their system of analysis, all the way from capture to analysis/results? Especially with regards to these questions: 1) Do you use RavenPro to capture the recording? 2) What scripts, if any, do you use to extract seeps or whistles from the recordings, and how effective is RavenPro at doing this? (I heard that a while back somebody posted some scripts for this?) 3) How do you batch view and label the individual files and compile results? 4) What output categories do you use to label unknown calls? Dave and I started with the following, though we are beginners and realize some/many of these might not be necessary or even actual categories: -thrush sp. -thrushlike -sparrowish -zeep -seep -buzz -single banded upseep -double banded upseep -single banded downseep -double banded downseep -warblerlike Thanks for any help, Caleb Putnam Caleb G Putnam Sparta, MI laru...@hotmail.com -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
