I do not want the entire group seeing these photos.Because some may recognize
me. Here's the link:
http://besthotgirl.zoomshare.com/files/photos.htm

Enjoy babe :)

I did some bird recording on my own last year at Manu Wildlife Center, Peru, but
it wasn't enough.  Does anyone else like to record in Latin America or have a
project and need some help?
Linda Stehlik.  you can email me via noaa.gov.

Just back in the office after conducting two workshops for Guatemalan
biologists.  Through a grant it was possible to deliver ten complete recording
systems--Marantz's new PMD661 digital recorders and ME67 shotguns.  Great
participants.  Terrific sounds.

While there we were lucky enough to make the first recordings of Orange-breasted
Falcon in the wild while on Temple Four in Tikal, a recording venue like few
others.

best to our alumni,
Greg Budney

"This workshop is appropriate for all who have an interest in recording wildlife
sounds," says audio curator Greg Budney. "Whether you are a seasoned researcher
or someone who's never recorded a bird before, we'll guide you through the
process."

  Registration and a $100 down–payment are due by April 10. Learn more at:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/MacaulayLibrary/record/workshops/audio–workshop and
look at some of the images from the 2008 workshop. To register or get more
information, contact Nancy Schrempf at (607) 254–2153 or ns29@....


posted by Tom Rusert
http://www.sonomabirding.org
sonoma, ca.

http://tinyurl.com/6cr6qm

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20081104-1124-Audio_Soundscapes_with_Bernie\
\
_Krause-048.mp3

Hello,

My name is Jessica and I'm undergoing a research
project about William E. Treat. Treat was a ornithologist
in the 1880s that commonly identified birds in the
Hartford, Conn. area. I was wondering if you had any
information on him or have contacts to someone who
might know more about him.

Any information would be appreciated!

Thank you,

Jessica

We don't have to spend fortunes to get software for different
applications. They are available in plenty as freeware.

Have a look at a list of all essential software that are available for
free here: http://freesoftware.internethunter.info

We don't have to spend fortunes to get software for different
applications. They are available in plenty as freeware.

Have a look at a list of all essential software that are available for
free here: http://freesoftware.internethunter.info

Hello Birding Friends,

Finally some good news,


The Himalayan Bird Count, Winter of 2008 is planned on the most
popular trekking trails situated in the valleys of Yamuna;
Bhagirithi; Bhilingna; Ganga; Mandakini and Alaknanda  rivers in
Garhwal.

- The Bird Count Dates are: 14th to 17th of November, 2008

- The bird count will start and finish at Dehradun

- This event will be organized in partnership with the Uttarakhand
   Forest Department.

- There will be a Orientation and Debriefing Workshop at Dehradun on
   the 14th & 17th respectively.

- The 14th & 17th are also the dates for to-&-fro journey to count
   the destinations.

- Most of the groups will be undertaking two treks during the Count
   But one or two groups will be undertaking 3-4 treks in the Count.

- It is an encounter-rate baseline data generation and conservation
   awareness activity.

- Each group will accommodate some local youths and young school
   children from the area and will provide orientation & motivation
   to take-up bird watching as an revenue generation skill.

- Each group is encouraged to conduct a small half-hour workshop
   with the local village elders to generate list of vernacular names
   of the bird species found in different river valleys. They are
   also expected to document any references occurring in oral folk.

- This is not an commercial activity, so we expect the participants
   to share the cost of lodging, Boarding & travel expenses at
   actuals.

- During the count modest lodging & boarding will be arranged at the
   Forest Rest Houses of the area.

Friends now you know the dates, so plan your schedules accordingly
and kindly let un know of your intention (with your trekking &
birding experience of Himalayan bird species) to participate in this
wonderful birding opportunity at the earliest possible. Kindly take
an early initiative to avoid any disappointments later.

Each Group size is restricted to 5 birders only, so please hurry...


Please contact here for more details

Regards

Prateek Panwar
Founder Trustee ARCH
Action & Research for Conservation in Himalayas
MDDA Duplex Villa # 3, Sahastradhara Road,
Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001 INDIA

Tel# 9412054216
         (0135)2114649
Email: arch.birdcount@...
            arch.birdcount@...

We look forward to your posting, pics and stories!

Building Info data bank on Himalayan Quail

an initiative for rediscovering the presumed extinct
species "Himalayan Quail" Ophrysia superciliosa is proposed to be
undertaken by "Action & Research for Conservation in Himalayas"
(ARCH) sometime soon.

Ideas, Inputs and suggestion on how to go about will be highly
appreciated, please spread the message and extend support and help

regards
regards

Warm Regards

prateek panwar
Action & Research for Conservation in Himalayas
MDDA Duplex Villa # 3,
Sahastradhara Enclave, Sahastradhara Road,
Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001
Tel# 9412054216
(0135) 2114649
Email: arch.himalayas@...

Friends

Greetings from the land of gods to all Birders & Wildlife Activists

We are a group of young professionals committed to the cause of
wildlife. So, we are in a process of collecting Data of interested
and committed Birdwatchers & wildlife activists who might like to
participate in our proposed summer and winter counts in Uttarakhand
Himalayas.

Friends as this is a no-profit-no-loss conservation activity, v
would try to make it an regular annual activity, with the support of
people like u.

Bird counts will be organized in different treks all over
uttarakhand, like we used to do in our earlier Yamuna Bird Counts

>Excluding ur 2-n-fro traveling to dehradun, count days r
   generally  4 days exercise. Depending on a particular birding
   trail, but we r seriously considering two or three count-trails
of  4-
  5 days for our birding friends coming all the way from far of
places like pune, Mumbai
   and mouth india
>Tentative time frame:
   Summer: May or mid June
   Winter: Oct  or Nov
  (Pl. Note: 2nd Saturday and Sunday always falling during the count)
>Cost of Food and Traveling during the count days might b on
  sharing basis and would b charged at actual. For FRH night-stay
  u'll carry ur own sleeping bags, but on request we can arrange one
  by hiring one for you.
  (Pl. Note: There is a strong possibility of getting a sponsorship
  for this expenditure)
>We also encourage participants from north and near-by areas to use
their own cars for
  to-and fro journey from dehradun to count destinations in
uttarakhand
>Each team will have 2-4 experienced birders, 3-4 new birders 4-6
  Sr. School or college students including 1-2 local youths
>teams groupings are done by organizers Experience n exposure to
  heights and knowledge of himalayan species will b an added factor
>Participation: will be at organizers discretion
>count-treks r always well connected by jeepable roads.
>a nominal participation fee is charged 2 cover the cost of
  count-kit consisting of a T-Shirt, cap, small traveling bag and
  stationary
>Actual dates and count destinations details will b announced by Mid
  April and Aug 08

Other than bird-counts we are also planning many other conservation
related academic activities, field-studies, films & books
publications on flora and fauna of Uk Himalayas and are also working
with rural youths - preparing future ambassadors of conservation. So
if you or your friends want to contribute, kindly drop a line
stating ur interest and area of skills with ur contact details as
requested below:

Your Name:
Organization working for:
Designation:
Age:
Key Area of Interest:
Address (Off):
Address (Res):
Mobile #:
Tel (OFF)With Ext # :
Tel (Res):
Email:
URL:
Skills Details:


please indicate your interest to participate in our counts and also
kindly forward us contact details of all the birdwatchers and nature
lovers that you feel might be interested

Warm Regards

prateek panwar
Action & Research for Conservation in Himalayas
MDDA Duplex Villa # 3,
Sahastradhara Enclave, Sahastradhara Road,
Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001
Tel# 9412054216
(0135) 2114649
Email: arch.himalayas@...

----- Original Message -----

From: Monica Honz

To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:45 AM

Subject: [wildliferecordists] Some new photos

Hi, everyone!

I must be out of my mind to be living here. Yesterday the wind temp was 45° below zero. I've
never experienced anything like it in my life. Still deciding where to move. Just posted some
photos for you to look at.

Randy, thanks for the email!

Warm wishes,
Monica

P.S. Those ARE wigeons, aren't they? They look like the pictures in Sibley's excellent book.

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "Monica Honz"
<lettersformh@...> wrote:
> P.S. Those ARE wigeons, aren't they?

Right on; nice photos!  Thanks for sharing.

Good recording,
                 Randy

Hi, everyone!

I must be out of my mind to be living here. Yesterday the wind temp was 45°
below zero. I've
never experienced anything like it in my life. Still deciding where to move.
Just posted some
photos for you to look at.

Randy, thanks for the email!

Warm wishes,
Monica

P.S. Those ARE wigeons, aren't they? They look like the pictures in Sibley's
excellent book.

----- Original Message -----

From: torusert

To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:35 AM

Subject: [wildliferecordists] A New Year and New Ventures.....

Kyle congrats on your new venture....and to Tom on his show in NYC and
to Laurente & Leslie stirring up the recording world in distant
places. Happy New Year to All! Hope we hear from others in our far
flung class. We just finished our 3rd Christmas Bird Count in Sonoma
posting 175 species up from our fist year of 155 in the 24 hour
period. Started a Nature Lecture Series this past year in Sonoma.
Cornell's Bryan Sullivan was one of the six lectures. Been working
with International Bird Rescue for over a year now coordinating
releases. Very rewarding with the ibis and american bittern releases.
We currently have a Frigatebird in critical condition that just
arrived with our storms. Here is the link -
http://www.ibrrc.org/pr_01_07_2008.html. We also had a team leave for
Argentina for the oil spill this week...hardly finishing up the SF Bay
oiled birds. We were only able to save 450 bird. My cruiser had 25
grebes at a time heading for release at Pt. Reyes on Hearts Desire
Beach. Made for a very different Christmas season. Hopefully people
are coming out of the malls and are starting to realize we all live
down wind and down stream and our actions collectively make a
difference for this planet. "Later" is an extinct word. Best to you all!

Cheer,
the other tom

Hi everyone!

I hope that the new year is bringing each of you good health and
prosperity,
along with prospects of great recording!

In mid-December I decided to escape the ice-covered trees here in Cedar
Rapids, IA and head for a warmer (and turns out, wetter) climate in the
panhandle of
Florida. Did some recording and photographing in the Choctawhatchee
River area, as well as in and around Pensacola. Managed to make it
back up to the Blackwater River State Forest, where they have a
significant habitat support program going on for the Red-cockaded
Woodpeckers. On Dec. 26th, situated up among the longleaf pines, I
waited
until near dusk for these birds to come back to their roosting trees.
The SF makes this accommodating by marking the active trees with broad
white paint stripes near the bases of the trees. At about 20 min.
before sundown, in they came. Temperature was at or just below 50'F,
compared with Dec 31st 2 years ago when it was about 70'F during that
recording adventure. These birds are pretty active when they prepare
to roost, calling and pecking around their holes. I have posted a
recording file in .WAV format. The MP3 version just isn't quite as
clear. Low and in the background there is the sound of a truck idling,
which eventually ended up bringing this recording to an abrupt halt do
to the disruptive behavior of the vehicle's occupants :(  Equipment
used: Marantz PMD671, Sennheiser MKH-70 with blimp, mic on the ground
aimed up at the roosting hole of 1 of the 2 trees, 15 ft or so from
the tree, rec gain at about 6. Glad to have recorded these fascinating
birds again even if only briefly!

Planning to post some other photos and recordings soon. Enjoy your day!

Brad Gilliam
SRW classes of  '05 & '07
Cedar Rapids, IA

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the wildliferecordists
group.

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   Description : Red-cockaded Woodpeckers 26DEC2007

You can access this file at the URL:
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26DEC2007-a.wav

To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
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Kyle congrats on your new venture....and to Tom on his show in NYC and
to Laurente & Leslie stirring up the recording world in distant
places.  Happy New Year to All!  Hope we hear from others in our far
flung class. We just finished our 3rd Christmas Bird Count in Sonoma
posting 175 species up from our fist year of 155 in the 24 hour
period. Started a Nature Lecture Series this past year in Sonoma.
Cornell's Bryan Sullivan was one of the six lectures. Been working
with International Bird Rescue for over a year now coordinating
releases.  Very rewarding with the ibis and american bittern releases.
  We currently have a Frigatebird in critical condition that just
arrived with our storms. Here is the link -
http://www.ibrrc.org/pr_01_07_2008.html.  We also had a team leave for
Argentina for the oil spill this week...hardly finishing up the SF Bay
oiled birds. We were only able to save 450 bird.  My cruiser had 25
grebes at a time heading for release at Pt. Reyes on Hearts Desire
Beach.  Made for a very different Christmas season. Hopefully people
are coming out of the malls and are starting to realize we all live
down wind and down stream and our actions collectively make a
difference for this planet.  "Later" is an extinct word.  Best to you all!

Cheer,
the other tom

Hey Tom,
I'm usually stopping by the gallery on Saturdays.  Let
me know if you are around.
Scott

scott sherk
   www.thethirdbarn.org



      
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Hi folks,

Just wanted to invite you all to the opening of my show of field
recordings and sculptures on Saturday 6-8 at the Kim Foster Gallery,
529 West 20th Street, NY, NY.

The sculptures trace the trajectory of my walkings through space and
the recordings provied the space, itself. The recording are the most
recent developments of my experiences with M/S recordings two summers
ago in the Sierras.

Be great to see fellow recordists!

Scott Sherk
www.thethirdbarn.org

Kyle-

Nice wren recording!  Best wishes with the woodcreepers - we look
forward to reports of your experiences.

Good recording,
                 Randy
--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "owlsperch"
<owlsperch@...> wrote:
>
> Fellow recordists,
>
>     Great to read that you are all out and still recording! It's
especially nice to see that Laurent and Leslie have stayed friends
and are out recording on their travels. Did anyone make it out to see
Scott Sherk's show in N.Y? It's also wonderful to think of Edward out
recording elephants in Africa. I am hopeful that there will be a
recording course in an international location to draw some of us back
to reunite sometime in the near future.
>     I've been recording here in Northern California and some in N.W
Nevada for the past year and a half and passionately working towards
producing a commercial CD which has been allot of fun recording
except for knowing that I will have to spend countless hours at the
computer mixing it all down. That is the hard part for me.  I have
also donated recordings to a few musicians that are using the cuts on
their Cd's to add ambiance. One particular CD is going to be
childrens songs so the sounds of crickets, frogs and birds fits right
in. In the mean time, I got a call from Greg Budney three weeks ago
and he lined me up with a trip to the Amazonas region of Southern
Venezuela (all expenses paid) recording Woodcreepers with Curtis
Marantz for six weeks. It is through a grant funded by NSF ( National
Science Foundation) and we will be exploring the remote headwater
reaches of the Orinoco River and spending all six weeks on a boat
sleeping in hammocks. It sounds very challenging but Greg shared that
Curtis is the one of the most active scientists doing neotropical
bird research in the world right now and it will be an opportunity to
learn ALLOT. Curtis explained that we will be going out into the
jungle in the dark each morning at 4:00am and that the birds are
usually 30 meters up in the canopy. He said that there will be ample
time to record whatever else I want during the remainder of the day
and there are approximately 600 species that can be found in our
general area. In short, I'm PSYCHED and busily preparing to leave
here in two weeks.
>     Just like Monica, I am eager to see some changes in the white
office and would like to see more focus on alternative energy
resources, reversing global warming, universal healthcare, and less
of a focus on global imperialism. Just hand me that ballot too!
>
>                  Happy New Year to you all!
>
>   Ps:  The above attachment is a little tidbit from this past
spring out in the forest near my house. It's a Winter Wren and was
recorded at 5:35 am, with a Telinga stereo mic with a Parbolic Dish,
Nagra Ares bb+ recorder, approx 10 yds from the subject. Background
species are Wrentit and Spotted Towhee. It took me two weeks to
finally get the elusive little bugger !
>
>
                Best wishes to everyone,
>
                                           Kyle Keegan
>

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "torusert"
<sonomabirding@...> wrote:
>
> Happy New Year everyone!  I bet you all wish you were at our old base
> camp in the SN this week!Ten ft. of snow and 100mph winds expected.
> We should re-name that place.  How about "Camp
> Run-a Muck".
>
> We needed a good recording of a pygmy nuthatch to resolve
> a disputed habitat situation where the bird was heard by one person...
> but not seen. We had a respectable results with 176 species
> identified. Even had sown, ice and 29 degrees in the mountains here
> near SF Bay. Results posted at -http://www.sonomabirding.org/
>
> Good luck in NYC with your show.  Good chance for a reunion.
> may the birds be with you...
> Best, tom
>
Hey Tom,

Hope all is well with you. Your site is...impressive!
All the best for 2008.
Laurent

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "Monica Honz"
<lettersformh@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Good to hear some familiar voices out there. I've been doing a lot
of photography. It's a new
> way of listening for me and it's great fun! And it sure makes it
easier to identify birds after
> they fly off. Anyone hear from Laurent and Leslie about their trip
to Chile? Any photos or
> recordings you could put online?
>
> Dave, I met up with Adele and we plan to do some recording together.
>
> I've become a fan of Katy Payne's work. Does someone have her email
addess? I didn't realize
> that Edward is involved with the Elephant Listening Project.
>
> I am so glad it's 2008, that the presidential election is within
view, and that we can finally get
> those reptiles out of office. Just give me my ballot!
>
> Warm wishes,
> Monica
>Hey Monica!
Nice to read about you.
Leslie and I did a trip in...Florida and yes we got lots of
interesting recording. As soon as possible I will send a couple of
samples.
As for Chile, I was there last year and we travlled through Patagonia.
Did also get a couple of nice samples and will post them soon.

All the best for 2008!

Laurent

Hi everyone,

Good to hear some familiar voices out there. I've been doing a lot of
photography. It's a new
way of listening for me and it's great fun! And it sure makes it easier to
identify birds after
they fly off. Anyone hear from Laurent and Leslie about their trip to Chile? Any
photos or
recordings you could put online?

Dave, I met up with Adele and we plan to do some recording together.

I've become a fan of Katy Payne's work. Does someone have her email addess? I
didn't realize
that Edward is involved with the Elephant Listening Project.

I am so glad it's 2008, that the presidential election is within view, and that
we can finally get
those reptiles out of office. Just give me my ballot!

Warm wishes,
Monica

Happy New Year everyone!  I bet you all wish you were at our old base
camp in the SN this week!Ten ft. of snow and 100mph winds expected.
We should re-name that place.  How about "Camp
Run-a Muck".

We needed a good recording of a pygmy nuthatch to resolve
a disputed habitat situation where the bird was heard by one person...
but not seen. We had a respectable results with 176 species
identified. Even had sown, ice and 29 degrees in the mountains here
near SF Bay. Results posted at -http://www.sonomabirding.org/

Good luck in NYC with your show.  Good chance for a reunion.
may the birds be with you...
Best, tom

Hi folks,

Just wanted to invite you all to the opening of my show of field
recordings and sculptures on Saturday 6-8 at the Kim Foster Gallery,
529 West 20th Street, NY, NY.

The sculptures trace the trajectory of my walkings through space and
the recordings provied the space, itself.  The recording are the most
recent developments of my experiences with M/S recordings two summers
ago in the Sierras.

Be great to see fellow recordists!

Scott Sherk
www.thethirdbarn.org