Bird Sounds

Bird Sounds

A great passion of mine is sound recording of birds songs and calls. I currently record onto Sony HiMD minidisc or an Edirol RO-9HR, using either a Sennheiser ME66 ‘short-gun’ microphone, a Telinga Pro-4 or a LisN parabolic microphone. I also do all my own digital editing.

Many more of my recordings can be found on xeno-canto website. Here are some samples from my collection:

Reed Bunting: A typical cheery sound of wetlands in East Anglia

White-spotted Bluethroat: A rare visitor to the UK, singing on territory at Welney WWT reserve

Black Scoter and Long-tailed Duck: The eerie sound of wintering ducks inside an ice-bound harbour, Hokkaido, Japan.

Blue-fronted Robin: An elusive songster in steep mountain forest in Bhutan.

An early morning soundscape of Crimson-faced Liocichla, Small Niltava, and many other birds, near Deothang in the south-east of Bhutan

An evocative evening chorus of Collared Scops Owl and duetting Spotted Wood Owls in the open woodlands of Cambodia

I have been making sound recordings of birds from around the world for many years, and have built up a large collection. I am also attempting to build up a comprehensive catalogue of bird vocalisations from the regions that I visit regularly.

PRODUCTS

‘BirdSongID’ App. for Iphone

Dave Farrow/Robin Chittenden/Isoperla , featuring over 70 species of British Birds with sound recordings by me & photos by Robin Chittenden

Dave Farrow’s BirdSongId – iPhone App store  or at Isoperla’s BirdSongId iPhone App

 

A Field Guide to the Bird Songs & Calls of Britain and Northern Europe

 

‘A Field Guide to the Bird Songs & Calls of Britain and Northern Europe’

In 2007 I authored my own title for the publisher Carlton, which is accompanied by two audio CDs with recordings of 200 species.

I also provided and edited all of the sound recordings for the Mitchell-Beazley publication ‘Bird’ that included a CD of recordings of 250 bird species, in mp3 format specifically for Ipod, plus I provided many recordings for the latest edition of the RSPB Field Guide to ‘Birds of Britain & Europe’ by Rob Hume that includes an audio CD.