{"id":5048,"date":"2020-04-15T00:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2020-04-12T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T14:19:16","slug":"looking-at-similar-songs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Looking&#8221; at Similar Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning birdsong can be quite a challenge. For some, mnemonics work quite well, for example, the commonly-heard\u00a0<em>sweet-sweet-shredded wheat<\/em> of a Yellow Warbler as it sings from a roadside thicket. For others (myself included) visualization is perhaps the essential element to learning each song and getting them glued to the memory bank.<!--more--> <span id=\"more-492\"><\/span> I find studying the audio spectrogram of the song I\u2019m looking to learn extremely useful and a great learning tool. Take, for example, these three spectrograms taken from the website,\u00a0Xeno Canto. Regarding reading the spectrogram: the <strong>pitch\u00a0<\/strong>is shown vertically (y-axis) and <strong>time<\/strong> is displayed horizontally (x-axis). <strong>Volume<\/strong> is indicated by the intensity of black (solid black denotes hard notes and high volume; translucent black denotes softer notes and lower volume), and <strong>tonal quality<\/strong> is shown by the shape and size of the notes. For example, a Baltimore Oriole&#8217;s thin and sharply-outlined flute-like notes would contrast with a Yellow-throated Vireo\u2019s thick and blurry husky notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/11227557_116077522057056_4695453441945397248_n-300x273.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5049 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/11227557_116077522057056_4695453441945397248_n-300x273-300x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>:\u00a0A 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 powerful, fast-paced, well-defined harmonic notes of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Numbers<\/strong>: Scarlet Tanager (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/20432\" rel=\"noopener\">XC20432<\/a>), American Robin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/131877\" rel=\"noopener\">XC131877<\/a>), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/134869\" rel=\"noopener\">XC134869<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning birdsong can be quite a challenge. For some, mnemonics work quite well, for example, the commonly-heard\u00a0sweet-sweet-shredded wheat of a Yellow Warbler as it sings from a roadside thicket. For others (myself included) visualization is perhaps the essential element to learning each song and getting them glued to the memory bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","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\/5048","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=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}