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July 1st 2006 Pics of a Swift have been added to the Birds section: Natural History >> Birds >> Swift Click on pic for big version. Click on link to see the rest. | ||||||||||||||
2nd July COMING in next day or two: Allan Haighton (see previous page re tawny recording) has looked through his store and found four more recordings. These are so good that they're going to have a page in this site's Tawny Owl section (Allan doesn't have a website). They make a fascinating comparison with recordings in the Nestbox Diary. Here they are: Allan's tawny recordings. | ||||||||||||||
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY (as they demotically style it) has produced what looks like a ground-breaking double CD of North American owl vocalisations. I shall definitely be ordering. Here's an extract from a press release: "Almost all the other recordings presented to the public are primary songs, like the hoot of the great horned owl or the toot of the northern saw-whet," said Gerrit Vyn, the lab's producer and studio engineer who chose the sounds for the new audio guide. "People just don't realize owls make so many different sounds, or don't recognize what they're hearing." For years, requests for owl vocalizations have been among the most popular recordings sought by researchers and the public alike at the lab's Macaulay Library, according to Greg Budney, curator of the natural sounds collection and co-producer of the new guide. Here are the links -- first the press release and then a page from which to start on the ordering process: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June06/owls.CD.fac.html http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/owl If you live outside the US or Canada, when you order use the link to Wild Birds Unlimited (www.sapsuckerwoods.com) right at the bottom of the page as they ship outside the US. The cost of the 2-CD set is $29.95, and oddly it's still $29.95 after you ask it to calculate shipping. Maybe they're just nice people. |  | |||||||||||||
Oh those lovely Barred Owls! (Acknowledgement for this CD cover thumbnail to CLO/Macaulay Library) | ||||||||||||||
More bird cds, and a European owl cd, on page 10 of the Scrapbook. | ||||||||||||||
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