The Birds includes selections from some of my previous libraries: Forests and Mountains, California Grassland Wildlife, Forest Day, and Harbor and Ocean.
I’ve gone through all of these libraries and selected what I consider some of my favorite recordings and that only include birds. With this collection you get a wide variety of various birds in different environments, perspectives, times of the day, night. Birds together, more specific and separate, close, distant. The locations mostly include Southern California Foothills, Forests, and Mountains and Central California Grassland areas. There’s also some recordings from Washington and Oregon.
There’s a few different species of Owls, a number of Ravens, various Sparrows, Woodpeckers, Doves, Finches and all sorts of other fun birds singing away. Anyone looking for a bit more info should check out the library links up top to get a good idea.
I’ve provided the species listings by each library. The file names have been kept the same as they were in the original libraries so if anyone would like to compare metadata sheets to see what’s included it will be a bit easier.
Forests and Mountains
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Quail, California Towhee, Canadian Geese, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, House Wren, Mallard, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pied-billed Grebe, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Poorwill, Raven, Robin, Red-shouldered Hawk, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Wood-Pewee, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird
Forest Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Lawrence’s Goldfinch,Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Pygmy Nuthatch, Raven, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Western Bluebird, Williamson’s Sapsucker
California Grassland Wildlife
Ash-throated Flycatcher, Barn Owl, Bell’s Sparrow, Bullock’s Oriole, California Towhee, Cassin’s Kingbird, Common Nighthawk, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Horned Lark, House Finch, Great Horned Owl, Mourning Dove, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Say’s Phoebe, Western Kingbird
Harbor and Ocean
Crow, Herring Gull, Pelogagic Cormorant, Pigeon Guillemot
Grassland Micro
California Towhee, House Finch, Mourning Dove, Western Kingbird, White-throated Swift
Metadata
All files have been carefully edited. Detailed Metadata and labeling of species has been provided along with using UCS. Photos have been embedded with each file to help out with getting an idea of what birds are typical in particular landscapes. Markers have also been placed in the files to help out with navigating.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Zoom F3
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8040+MKH 30 MS
