Wednesday 25 January 2012

Bird sounds

At least half of the enjoyment of birds is their calls!
I guess more has been written about their notes and songs than their ability to fly!
I have recently dusted off my Parabolic microphone and MiniDisc recorder to try and collect as many of these calls as i can. There are some great resources out there for the amateur sound recordists such as a free sound editing program called "Audacity" http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ as well as a website called http://audio.online-convert.com
where you can select a sound file on your laptop and it will convert it to mp3 or any number of other formats.
Of course there are people sharing sound recordings and making them available to you and i and one such website is http://xeno-canto.org where you will find almost every bird's call. You can sign up to that one and start sharing your recordings.......

I am just trying to find how i can add my own recordings to this blog so that you can all enjoy them too.

The Hwange Birder
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  1. Bob Planque30 January 2012 at 04:41

    Hi Brent,
    Great to see some first additions from Hwange NP on xeno-canto. To make the recordings appear in this blog, you can try to embed them. I'll try one example in this post. Not sure if it will work. I'm pasting an iframe into this post, the code for which you can find the recording's individual page, e.g. http://www.xeno-canto.org/93795 for that last Rattling Cisticola. The iframe code should be self-explanatory. Just use the catalogue number to choose which recording you want to appear.

    OK... trying to post this gave the error that I'm not allowed to post iframes (for good reasons by the way). I edited the code a little, so you still get the gist.

    iframe src="http://www.xeno-canto.org/embed.php?XC=93795&simple=0" scrolling=no frameborder=0 width=340 height=230

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    1. Conflictcats31 January 2012 at 22:59

      Hi Bob,
      thanks for your comment..much appreciated. please run me through the process step by step as i am not exactly computer literate! thanks

      The Hwange Birder

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  2. Bob Planque1 February 2012 at 01:01

    Hi Brent,
    First, you select the recording you want to embed, on xeno-canto, by going to its ovreview page (clicking on catalogue numbers, such as XC2234, will get you there, or just type the number behind the xeno-canto.org url, like this: xeno-canto.org/12345)
    Second, look right and find the 'embed this recording' link underneath the sonogram. Click on it, and you will get two bits of code, which you have to copy and paste into your blog (well, choose one of the two).
    Pronto!
    Let me know how you get on.
    cheers,
    Bob

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  3. Conflictcats1 February 2012 at 01:38

    Well Bob as you can see it worked...many thanks

    The Hwange Birder

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  4. Bob Planque2 February 2012 at 01:48

    cool!

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