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the thing with feathers

photo of a hummingbird with green-gray-brown body and iridescent magenta headAnna's Hummingbird is one of the top species on BirdWeather

"BirdWeather is a visualization platform that... is continuously listening to over 200 active audio stations around the world and is actively plotting their results in a user-friendly map interface..." jessamyn posted about the birbs, and it is super cool.

12/17/23
by taz

"A Little Bird Either Learns Its Name Or Dies"

A small pale brown bird with a gaping orange beak, on twig-like foliageBy Fir0002; edited by jjron (cropped) - Own work by author, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5712196

Musical passwords given by miniature birds: great post by nickyskye about the Superb Fairy-Wren (and a fun thread!). In other birbtalk news, learn 12 different chicken calls, including the before and after Egg Songs, from spamandkimchi.

05/31/21
by taz

avian bioacoustical research!

In songIn song by nagillum (cc by)

If you really want to get your nerd on and have some older computer gear laying around, you can even build your own bird mic and analyze your results using free software. Here are some spectrograms of migration calls recorded with this method.

User cardinality drops the science on how to nerdily start identifying birds by call, using free software.

04/26/14
by jessamyn

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