An Ever-Growing Library of Bird Sounds

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An Ever-Growing Library of Bird Sounds

Written by Conor Gearin

This is BirdNote. 

[Purple Finch song]
Martha Fischer: A Purple Finch – it’s perched in a maple tree, singing…

Most of the bird sounds you hear on BirdNote come from the Macaulay Library, a vast collection of over one million bird calls and songs curated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 
    
    [Chucao Tapaculo calls]
Francisco Rivas: Chucao Tapaculo. Treinta de septiembre…

The library relies on both professional field recordists and dedicated volunteers to capture the sounds of birds all over the world. 

    [Elf Owl calls]
Gerrit Vyn: And that was an Elf Owl pair. Full moon tonight. Uh, little bit of wind.

    [Red-winged Blackbird song]
Natasza Fontaine: Red-winged Blackbird, Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Gainesville, Florida.  

And you can contribute, too. Any time you upload a sound recording to eBird, a site for reporting bird observations, the audio file becomes part of the Macaulay Library. Adding more recordings to the collection helps researchers study patterns in bird songs and improve sound ID tools.

    [Red-winged Blackbird song]

Learn more on our website, BirdNote dot ORG. I’m Ariana Remmel.

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Senior Producer: John Kessler
Content Director: Allison Wilson
Producer: Mark Bramhill
Managing Editor: Jazzi Johnson
Managing Producer: Conor Gearin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Purple Finch ML71885 recorded by Martha Fischer, Chucao Tapaculo ML31426321 recorded by Francisco Rivas, Elf Owl ML140240 recorded by Gerrit Vyn, and Red-winged Blackbird ML213390121 recorded by Natasza Fontaine.
BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
© 2022 BirdNote   January 2023         
Narrator: Ariana Remmel

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