Sounds from Heron's Head bioblitz

[Ken McGary]

Hi folks,

Wow, that was a blast! If you haven' heard the update we're just over 600 species, 122 species and 34 observers, and I'm sure we'll have more updates by tomorrow. Not bad for 3 hours and a bunch of old landfill (albiet lovingly recrafted landfill, we had a fairly high tide crest right as the wrap party was starting so the high water brought in lots of close-up wildlife.

I'll let the experts update us on all of that but I want to share a unique aspect of this bioblitz, which is the sound recording this morning starting at the crack of dawn by Dan Dugan of the Nature Sounds Society. Here's all 1.5 hours of it, but as Dan explains on his soundscape page for the audio, it's a long way from a pristine sound environment, the nearby recycling center runs 24-hours a day, as do the obligatory seagulls cawing in the background. 

However, there are some interesting bird calls that pop up here and there, nothing exotic I don't think but who knows? If you have the inclination, put it on the the background while you're otherwise occupied and see if your ears pick up any useful signals.

I think the interesting thing would be to upload any identified species to iNaturalist which allows observations to be sound files as well as photos. If anyone can tell Dan what they hear at what time on the track we can make a list, clip the bird calls into smaller files, and then upload them. 

I'm also hoping we can arrange with Dan to join us on other bioblitzes in the future where there's not such a constant background racket!

Ken

[Dan Dugan]

That's a great idea, Ken. I'm going to be out of town for a couple of weeks; maybe when I get back there will be some clips to pull out. I've noted a flyover of gulls at 20:17, and a white-crowned sparrow at 48:55 and several other times. I'd like to know what the little high tweet heard many times on the left is.

-Dan

[Ken-ichi]

Might be a fun way to use the Soundcloud and iNat APIs:

https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/reference#comments
http://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference#post-observations

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