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Macaulay Library. The Macaulay Library is the world's largest archive of animal media. It includes more than 33 million photographs, 1.2 million audio recordings, and over two hundred thousand videos [1] covering 96 percent of the world's bird species. [2] There are an ever-increasing numbers of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings.
Albert Rich Brand (October 22, 1889 – March 28, 1940) [ 1] was an author and innovator in the recording of bird songs. [ 2] Herbert J. Seligmann wrote Man and Bird Together: A Portrait of Albert R. Brand about him. [ 3] He was a stockbroker until age 39. At Cornell University he became a graduate student of ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen.
The common blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), [2] or simply the blackbird where this does not lead to confusion with a similar-looking local species. It breeds in Europe, western Asia, and North ...
Arthur Augustus Allen (28 December 1885 – 17 January 1964) was an American professor of ornithology at Cornell University. Allen was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Daniel Williams Allen and Anna née Moore. He studied at Cornell University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1907, his Master of Arts in 1908 and his Ph.D. in 1911.
Listen to Nature Archived 2016-09-22 at the Wayback Machine 400 examples of animal songs and calls; Washington U. Mice Songs; Cornell Animal Sound Library (over 300,000 audio recordings from various species of mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, arthropods and reptiles). The British Library Sound Archive has more than 150,000 recordings of 10,000 ...
Bird vocalization. An eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) singing, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, United States. Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex ...
Non-breeding. The eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) is a small passerine bird. The genus name Sayornis is constructed from the specific part of Charles Lucien Bonaparte 's name for Say's phoebe, Muscicapa saya, and Ancient Greek ornis, "bird". [2] Phoebe is an alternative name for the Roman moon-goddess Diana, but it may also have been chosen to ...
Northern mockingbird. The northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is a mockingbird commonly found in North America, of the family Mimidae. The species is also found in some parts of the Caribbean, as well as on the Hawaiian Islands. It is typically a permanent resident across much of its range, but northern mockingbirds may move farther south ...