Analyzing fun bird song spectrograms
Listening to bird songs and watching their spectrograms is a great way to become a better birder. I try to record new species at every … Read more
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Birding Summary, Education, Entertainment
Thousands of Purple Martins swarm and roost in Austin, Texas
We made a personal bird trip today from San Antonio to Austin, Texas to attend the first Purple Martin Party of the year. This event, held by Travis Audubon, takes place four Saturday evenings in early summer every year.
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Migratory Bird Fest 2022 at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center
Migratory Bird Fest has been underway at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center from April 21 2022 to today, May 14, 2022. Bird Fest concludes with a community festival full of organizations and activities. After a morning of birding at Pearsall Park, we drove over to the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center to check out the activities.
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Visualize bird songs with spectrograms
Recording bird songs is a great way to begin learning how to identify birds by ear. But listening to your clips isn’t the only way to enjoy and study them. Spectrograms add a whole new layer to your bird recordings, enabling you study them visually and see how species vocalize in different ways.
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Casual Birding – For those short on time
Going birding doesn’t always have to be an hours-long affair. Finding time to look for birds can be as easy as stopping by a park … Read more
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Non-obvious Tips to Help Identify Birds
After going bird watching a few times or watching your feeder for a few weeks, the birds slowly start to look more and more familiar. But it can still be a challenge to discern one bird from another or to learn to recognize a new species you’ve seen only a few times.
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My first time recording birds with a shotgun microphone
Microphone. Power supply. Shock mount. Windscreen. Pistol grip. XLR cable. Headphones. Recorder. Bird. All of these things work together to capture a bird song. Following the Audubon’s Guide to Recording Bird Song, I scoured the internet to put together my own secondhand bird recording kit.
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