The world’s largest natural sound archive is now fully digital and fully online. With a collection of nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings you are likely to find the animal sound you are looking for! Currently there are about 9,000 species with an emphasis on birds, but the collection also has whales, elephants, frogs, primates, and more. Hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.
As we see our fine feathered friends return to our bird feeders after their journey back to Minnesota, do you ever wonder what their journey entailed? What sites do they see on their homeward trek? The folks at BuzzFeed have an answer to that question, so, just for fun, consider these 27 incredible views you would only see as a bird!
Soon hopefully, our fine, feathered friends will be coming back to grace us with their song and beauty. When we think about “library experience” we most often think of humans, but it never occured to me that birds may have a less than satisfactory experience with the library as they crash into our large expanses of glass! No solution has yet proven to be 100 percent effective in ending all fatal bird strikes, but there is information available about new styles of window decals that will help to decrease the numbers of birds that meet such an untimely death.
Related point of levity….see the Birds on a Wire post, about how someone put music to the position of birds sitting on a wire! Sounds way too goofy? It ended up Winner of the YouTube Play Guggenheim Biennial Festival!
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The world’s largest natural sound archive is now fully digital and fully online. With a collection of nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings you are likely to find the animal sound you are looking for! Currently there are about 9,000 species with an emphasis on birds, but the collection also has whales, elephants, frogs, primates, and more. Hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.
