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The first item in your recording kit should be a good guidebook to bird songs and sonograms/spectrograms. The Peterson series offers an excellent choice here, a "Must-Have" for the bird recordist.
[Ed. Note: The eBird audio tutorial presents the purist "keep it natural" approach where editing is strongly discouraged. In my audio clips I typically will do a good deal more low-frequency suppression than is here recommended. This is because of the very noisy suburban environment wherein I make my recordings. Road rumble, aircraft, shooting range, lawnmowers etc introduce a horrendous amount of manmade "unnatural" noise. You include that in a bird recording, normalize it to -3 dB and the bird is lost in the roar.]
[Ed note: eBird quality ratings, in my experience, are subjective and worthless (to me). I would MUCH rather see “Views” given as it is both objective and interesting.]
KJS 04/2025