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Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong ) 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).
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
Alexander Liebermann (born 1989) is a German-French composer of classical music based in New York City. [1] [2] He is best known for transcribing birdsongs into musical notation and sharing them on social media. [2] He incorporates bird calls into his classical music compositions, which have been performed around the world.
Pages in category "Bird sounds" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Swan song; Syrinx (bird anatomy) T. Turkey call; Tweet of the Day; V.
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 ...
Australian Bird Calls (also referred to as Songs of Disappearance: Australian Bird Calls and just Songs of Disappearance) is an album of Australian bird calls, released on 3 December 2021 by the Bowerbird Collective and BirdLife Australia. It was created to bring attention to endangered and threatened species of Australian birds. [1]
An annual International Dawn Chorus Day is held on the first Sunday in May [6] when the public are encouraged to rise early to listen to bird song at organised events. The first ever was held at Moseley Bog in Birmingham, England, in 1987, organized by the Urban Wildlife Trust (now The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country).
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 ...