ckwokwing

Is there any books, media or on web pages about bird call or voice?
Thanks.

sgeoff

For starters:

The British Library site has a lot of useful basic information on equipment and techniques for wildlife sound recording:

http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wiltrain.html

The Macaulay Library of Cornell University also has a very impressive collection of recordings of bird calls.  Most are from North America, as you might expect, but there is a searchable archive which has quite a number of entries from this region, mostly recorded in Taiwan, it seems

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/macaulaylibrary/

wgeoff

There is an excellent new book "The Sound Approach to Birding" by Mark Constantine. This is a book about understanding bird sound and comes with two CD's of bird sounds. It explains the modern techniques of sonograms, amongst other things.

For sound recordings, try 'Birds of Tropical Asia 3', a CD-ROM by Jelle Scharringa, Bird Songs International at www.birdsongs.com or there is a CD of local bird sounds by HKBWS.

bkenneth

This has a few recordings as well, which you should find useful.

http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/index.html

Cheers,
Ken

ywaichung

Hi

Although this reply is a bit late, the below information might still be useful to our fellow bird watchers:-

This is a CD set consisting of  2 CDs plus 1 booklet (actually I should say 3 booklets if the explanatory pullout leaflet and booklet  enclosed in the 2 CD boxes are counted also) produced in Taiwan. The 1st CD is known as "Songbirds" which consists of 9 pieces of music played with some musical instruments together with some live recordings of bird singing as the background sound. The 2nd CD is known as "Explanatory Birds Photo Handbook" (I would add the word "& Sound" after "hoto") consists of 43 pieces of live recordings of bird singing plus vocal explanatory on 15 of the recordings. The accompanying pullout leaflet show photos and description of the releated bird species. The bonus leaflet is known as "The Story of Sun Qing-song" (a Taiwanese bird-watcher).

Although the bird song recordings relate to birds found in Taiwan's wetland, plains, mid to low elevations above sea level, I notice that some of the species can also be found in Hong Kong. It helps me to recognize some of the "mysterious" bird sounds which I heard during my field trips in Hong Kong for which I could not see the appearance of the relevant bird species.

You may refer to the below website for details of this CD set:


http://www.wind-records.com.tw/shop/Stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=2395729223102395&Store_id=103&page_id=23&Item_ID=7503&Cat_id=58&Shop=6


Patrick Yu