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See in store for T's and C's. Welcome back to the Beat podcast. I am Jacques from Jacques in the Garden and today we have

David Mannon, a specialist in bioacoustics. He is actually the founder of

Loggerhead Instruments and creator of the Haiku Box, which is a lovely instrument

I've had in my garden now for a few months.

I've had a lot of fun with it.

And David, why don't you introduce yourself a little bit more and actually tell people what the haiku box is before we dive into our first topic here.

Sure, hi Jacques. So I'm David and I've been a scientist and engineer and I have been studying

bioacoustics for 30 something years.

And so I started, yeah, I started in marine bioacistics, so underwater sounds made by fishes and have been both at universities and at my company.

So the company started out making underwater

acoustic recorders for scientists.

And we wanted to get into something more that consumers could try out with

bioacoustics. So we invented the haiku box along with some colleagues at

Cornell Lab of Ornithology. And so it's a basically a device you plug in outside your house. It's got a

microphone that's always listening for birds. And when it hears a bird, it'll send that audio clip up to a cloud server and you know detect what species it is and you so you can go see like you know who's coming by my yard yeah yeah

it's really cool yeah yeah so actually as I mentioned I've had one now for about two months. We got into birding like me, my partner this year and she's way more deep into it than I am. She likes to make her lifeless and collect them.

I just like going along for the ride and looking at birds and taking pictures, but it's been really fun to now have names to all the birds that I see in my garden.

So we're going to start off talking about bioacoustics, what they are, what animals make those

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