An Ever-Growing Library of Bird Sounds
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bird Note. |
| 0:07.6 | My purple finch. It's perched in a maple tree singing. |
| 0:14.0 | Most of the bird sounds you hear on Bird Note come from the Macaulay Library, |
| 0:19.0 | a vast collection of over one million bird calls and songs |
| 0:22.5 | curated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. |
| 0:31.1 | Chukau Tapaculo, 30th of September of 2014. |
| 0:35.7 | The library relies on both professional field recordists |
| 0:39.5 | and dedicated volunteers |
| 0:41.3 | to capture the sounds of birds all over the world. |
| 0:46.8 | And that was an elf owl pair. |
| 0:50.9 | It's a full moon tonight. |
| 0:52.8 | It's a little bit of wind. |
| 0:58.2 | Red Wing Blackbird, Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Gainesville, Florida. |
| 1:03.4 | And you can contribute, too. Any time you upload a sound recording to Ebird, a site for reporting bird observations, the audio file becomes |
| 1:12.5 | part of the Macaulay library. Adding more recordings to the collection helps researchers study |
| 1:18.3 | patterns in bird songs and improve sound ID tools. Learn more on our website, birdnote.org. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm Ariana Rimmel. |
| 1:28.9 | Support for Birdnote is provided by Marjorie and Ed Ringness from Seattle, Washington, |
| 1:33.7 | and generous listeners around the world. |
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