An Ever-Growing Library of Bird Sounds

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Collecting the sounds of birds all over the world.

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0:00.0	This is Bird Note.
0:02.0	My purple finch, it's perched in a maple tree singing.
0:11.0	Most of the bird sounds you hear on Bird Note come from the McCulley Library, a vast
0:15.9	collection of over 1 million bird calls and songs curated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
0:28.0	The library relies on both professional field recordists and dedicated volunteers to capture
0:39.0	the sounds of birds all over the world.
0:44.0	And that was an elf owl pair full moon tonight, a little bit of wind.
0:57.0	Red wing black bird, sweet water wetlands park, Gainesville, Florida.
1:02.0	And you can contribute too.
1:04.0	Any time you upload a sound recording to eBird, a site for reporting bird observations,
1:10.0	the audio file becomes part of the McCulley Library.
1:13.0	Adding more recordings to the collection helps researchers study patterns and bird songs
1:18.0	and improve sound ID tools.
1:22.0	Learn more on our website birdnote.org.
1:25.0	I'm Ariana Rimmel.

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