82 Listening to Birds - with Vicky

Learn how to record bird song and use technology to identify them.

This episode is about bird call ID apps, sound recording equipment and research into how baby birds learn while they are in their egg.

Dr Vicky Austin is interested in bird behaviour and how birds interact with each other and their environment. She is particularly fascinated by the vocalisations of female birds. Vicky’s PhD at Western Sydney University focused on the vocalisations of female Superb Lyrebirds (such as mimicry) and how females use these sounds to protect themselves and their chicks. Vicky reckons that vocalisations of female birds are just as spectacular as males and she’s here to share what she knows.

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Links

* Vicky on Twitter - @avianbehaviour
* Vicky on Instagram - @avianbehaviour
* Vicky at the Animal Ecology Lab - animalecologylab.org/victoria-austin.html
* Flinders University - flinders.edu.au/college-science-engineering/who-we-are/ecology-evolution-environment
* Lyrebird Lab - lyrebirdlab.org
* Superb Lyrebird recording by Nick Talbot (XC340211) - xeno-canto.org
* Superb Fairywren recording by Marc Anderson, licenced from wildambience.com

Sound recording apps

* Merlin Bird ID app – merlin.allaboutbirds.org 
* BirdNet app - birdnet.cornell.edu
* xeno-canto (bird sound recordings) - https://xeno-canto.org