This is bird note.

Juan Pablo Colasso is a nature recordist based in Colombia.

Here he describes how he uses a parabolic microphone to record a singing bird. Juan Pablo is blind so he uses his hearing to

pinpoint a small bird in dense vegetation. I walk in without my headphones I try to locate the sound with my ears. When I

located that I ask for my guide. The first question is is really 100% dance or there is a way to pass this row of trees to get closer to the source of the sound?

And then they say, yeah, you can walk three steps to the right and you can go inside and get a different perspective.

And then I put my headphones, when you use a parabola, you need to focus the sound.

When the sound is focused, the volume of the sound really increased in the headphones

and you can get really sure that that sound is really 100% focus and you can record that.

In some situations you need to target the parabola to the branch

instead of the bird because the sound is bouncing on that branch and is

focused better than if you are going to target the bird. Here's some of one Pablo's recordings on our website, Bird Note.org. I'm Michael Stein. You're going to.