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a simplified model of a food web containing Accipiter cooperii. VISIT VERA to learn more about the modeling tool and how to run simulations of your own
CreatureCast.org brings you stories about the unexpected world of animals. In this episode, Rebecca Helm talks about the battle of the sexes going on beneath the surface.This work is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Music by Bird Names.
There are three different songs here sung by a Western Meadowlark. The first repeats three times, the second song repeats 4 times, and the third song is repeated three times. This was recorded on Marble Hot Springs Road at the 2nd 90 degree turn as the Meadowlark sang from the telephone wire above. In the background you will hear cows moo and a few other birds call as well, but the Western Meadowlark is clearly the focal subject of the recording. This was recorded with a Fostex FR-2 and Sennheiser shotgun microphone, ME66.
The photo attached is a spectrogram of Western Meadowlark made in Raven Pro.
(taxonomy:binomial="Sturnella neglecta")
Design & Intelligence Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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a simplified model of a food web containing Crocodylus niloticus. VISIT VERA to learn more about the modeling tool and how to run simulations of your own
This bird was recorded across the street from our apartment. I have not been able to actually see the bird, but for weeks I have been listening to it sing/call every morning. To be singing on our busy street (Massachusetts Ave, NE, just a few blocks from the Capitol in Washington, DC), it must be a common bird that thrives in the city, so I'd like to know this city dweller's name. I'll update this note when I learn who it is.
UPDATE: HOUSE WREN! Thank you, Mark, Perry, Martyn, Lang, Kristen, and Seth!
June 15, 2012, recorded with a Fostex FR-2, Sennheiser ME-66 Shotgun mic, Rycote windscreen. Sonnogram created using Cornell's Raven Pro Sound Analysis software.
(taxonomy:binomial="Troglodytes aedon")