{"id":492,"date":"2015-05-25T01:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T01:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=492"},"modified":"2017-02-22T00:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:26:32","slug":"looking-at-similar-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLooking\u201d at Similar Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning birdsong can be quite a challenge! For some, mnemonics work quite well, i.e. the familiar \u201csweet-sweet-shredded wheat!\u201d of a Yellow Warbler singing from a roadside thicket. For others (myself included) visualisation is perhaps the key element to learning each song and getting \u2019em glued into the memory bank.<\/p>\n

Personally speaking, I find studying the audio spectrogram of the song I\u2019m looking to learn more about extremely useful and a great learning tool. Take, for example, these three spectograms taken from the website,\u00a0Xeno Canto. Regarding reading the spectrogram: pitch<\/strong> is shown vertically (y-axis) and time<\/strong> is shown horizontally (x-axis). Volume<\/strong> is shown by the intensity of black (pitch black denotes high volume; translucent black denotes low volume) and tonal quality<\/strong> is shown by the shape and size of the notes; i.e. a Baltimore Oriole\u2019s flute-like notes would appear thin and crisply-outlines, and a Yellow-throated Vireo\u2019s husky notes would appear thick and blurry.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Photo<\/strong>: A comparative audio spectrogram of similar-sounding songs, from top to bottom: Scarlet Tanager, American Robin, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Note the powerful, husky, fast-sequenced song of a Scarlet Tanager; the relatively soft, flute-like, slower-paced song of an American Robin; and the strong, fast-paced, well-defined harmonic notes of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak.<\/p>\n

Reference Numbers<\/strong>: Scarlet Tanager (XC20432), American Robin (XC131877), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (XC134869).<\/p>\n

Link to Xeno Canto: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning birdsong can be quite a challenge! For some, mnemonics work quite well, i.e. the familiar \u201csweet-sweet-shredded wheat!\u201d of a Yellow Warbler singing from a roadside thicket. For others (myself included) visualisation is perhaps the key element to learning each song and getting \u2019em glued into the memory bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}