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Most bird sounds for BirdNote are provided by the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.Writers have included Dennis Paulson, [3] Curator Emeritus of The Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, [4] the late Robert Sundstrom, birding-by-ear expert with the Seattle Audubon Society, and other writers and naturalists.
The northern cardinal, which represents seven states, is the only bird to hold the status of state bird in more states. [ 12 ] During the 2017 regular session of the Oregon Legislature, there was a short-lived controversy over the western meadowlark's status as state bird versus the osprey .
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 vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
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]
Artist John James Audubon depicted birds and wildlife but died long before the National Audubon Society was born. But the first Audubon Societies weren’t born until 40 to 50 years later ...
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...
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