Translating bird sounds into words
Adapted from The Sound Approach to Birding (2005) by Mark Constantine. Translating bird sounds into words is notoriously difficult, even for the most seasoned experts. Field guides and birding journals...
Terminology in describing bird sounds
You may hear the following words used when describing bird sounds (or indeed any sounds). Learning what they mean and how to use them will help you when describing to...
Sicily, Italy
In April 2007, Arnoud and René travelled to Marettimo in the Egadi islands off Sicily to photograph and sound record Mediterranean Storm Petrels Hydrobates melitensis for our book Petrels night and day (2008). While...
Mount Kazbegi, Georgia
Reaching an altitude of 5047 m, Mount Kazbegi is the seventh highest peak in the Greater Caucasus range and the third highest in Georgia. Its summit lies just 10 km...
Wadi Al Mughsayl, Oman
Owls have taken The Sound Approach to some legendary places. Desert Owl Strix hadorami more than most. Our first recordings came from the ancient rock-cut city of Petra in Jordan. Later we...
Masirah and Shannah, Oman
Masirah, Oman’s largest island, lies 15 km from Shannah on the eastern coast of Oman. It measures 65 km long from north to south, and most of its 12000 people...
Flight calls of migratory birds
Back in 2003, The Sound Approach created a CD and booklet titled Out of the blue, for the subscribers of the Dutch Birding journal to mark the 25th anniversary of the...
Calls of Western Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow...
This page was produced to host the recordings supplied by The Sound Approach team for the BBRC paper on vagrant Yellow Wagtails, which appears in the July 2016 issue of British Birds. Text...
Unravelling the mystery of the Omani Owl
Discovered in 2013 by Magnus Robb and the Sound Approach and confirmed using sound analysis, Omani Owl has created a stir among both birders and biologists. That a bird around the...
Homer Spit, Alaska, USA
Homer Spit is a narrow, flat peninsula that stretches 7.2 km into Kachemak Bay, Alaska, USA. It is located on the Kenai Peninsula, the smaller and easternmost of the two...
The newly described taxon Strix omanensis is to...
The newly described taxon Strix omanensis (Robb et al. 2013) is to be recognised as a species following application of the Tobias et al. (2010) criteria, which support its distinctiveness from congeners. Strix omanensis was...