Songbirding

(Bonus) In lieu of an in person field event I was scheduled to lead around Hamilton, Ontario in June 2020, here's a short virtual tour of one of the locations.

(Bonus) In lieu of an in person field event I was scheduled to lead around Hamilton, Ontario in June 2020, here's a short virtual tour of one of the locations, McMaster Forest on Lower Lion's Club Road.

More Season 3 episodes coming soon. In the meantime, here's a soundscape of a Mourning Warbler, and a few other species, recorded on June 6, 2020 at the Robertson Tract in Halton Region, Ontario.

A review of resources for new birders, especially during COVID-19, with a teaser bonus at the end. Also, please note the podcast will be bi-weekly for a bit until things are less busy.

A hike & conversation with Sonya Richmond and Sean Morton about #Hike4Birds, their cross-Canada journey. Read more about them at http://comewalkwithus.online Credits Recorded, edited, and created by Rob Porter. Special guests: Sonya Richmond, Sean Morton Creative Commons music by Assai. Support You can now support Songbirding at https://patreon.com/songbirding

The autumn migration is not a great time for hearing full birdsongs, but birding-by-ear is still possible, and useful to help you find all kinds of migrant species. For those with high-frequency hearing loss, you may alternatively download to "Songbirding Under 5kHz". Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ Support You can support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/songbirding or on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/songbirding

Special episode for International Podcast Month. Kenneth Eckle, host of PRRP, goes birding. About PRRP aka Podcast Reviews Reviews Podcast: On this podcast, I review the reviews of this podcast. Multi-award-winning. More info: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/prrp-podcast-reviews-reviews-p-766873

(For International Podcast Month) What are the challenges of recording a podcast in natural spaces? Join "Songbirding" host Rob Porter on a hike while he talks about hazards to good quality field recordings, tips and tricks for both recordists and audio documentarians for recording birdsong and other natural phenomena, and much more. Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Creative Commons Music by Scott Buckley – https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/

🎃🦉🦉🎃 A dusk walk amongst some Great Horned Owls.. and some other creatures of the night! Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ Support You can support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/songbirding

The winter of 2020-2021 is gearing up to be an important season for winter finches. In this special, the sounds of the various kinds of winter finches are reviewed. Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au Check out our podcast host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free with no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

It's a new year, which means the start of a new "year list". Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au Join the patreon on https://patreon.com/songbirding This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

This soundscape contains the following species: Blue Jay, American Robin, European Starling, Carolina Wren, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Bald Eagle (!), Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Swamp Sparrow Listeners with high-frequency hearing loss can find a modified version by searching for "Songbirding Under 5KHz". Credits Recorded, engineered, and created by Rob Porter. This episode was produced with the support of the High Park Nature Centre: https://highparknaturecentre.com/ Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Discord Chat Songbirding has a channel on the Cast Junkie Discord server, use the following invite link to join: https://discord.gg/MHcPrhc There's also a patron-only private server, which you can get access to via Patreon. Support You can support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/songbirding This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

Part two of the 7th Annual Dawn Chorus event, hosted by Toronto’s High Park Nature Centre.

While there may not be a lot of song, birds make plenty of identifiable sounds in the autumn. Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

Common True Katydids, Chorus Frogs, grasshoppers, crickets, and Eastern Screech-Owls are featured in this Hallowe'en Special. Article: "The Proper Use of Playback in Birding" - https://www.sibleyguides.com/2011/04/the-proper-use-of-playback-in-birding/ Listener survey: https://songbirding.com/survey Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

For the holidays I'm releasing a sample episode of Songbirding Serenades, normally a Patreon exclusive. Enjoy! The American Redstart is a cheery, friendly warbler that vocalizes in a lot of different ways. It can be hard to nail down this song as it varies so much, but generally it is always a short song, and tends to end abruptly or with an accent. It is a fairly persistent singer though, as you will hear -- and the pause between each song is usually only a few seconds long. A few times in these following soundscapes it may even sound like the redstart is mimicking other warbler species. But, do be aware, some of these recordings actually do contain other species. For feedback you can contact me through Patreon, Discord, or email songbirdingpod@gmail.com. Each episode is a paid subscriber exclusive. If and when I get more soundscape recordings of a species, I will go back and add the new content to the existing episode, so a given episode may grow in length over time. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

Recorded on December 30, 2021 during the 1st Flamborough Christmas Bird Count, at Fletcher Creek Ecological Preserve in Puslinch, Ontario. Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

For this episode we'll be testing out the Merlin app to see how it fares against birding by ear. More about Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ Listener survey: https://songbirding.com/survey Credits Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. Songbirding Cover Art (Blackburnian Warbler) by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Ethereal Guitars by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8306-ethereal-guitars License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

Some sample recordings from an in-the-field livestream this past April. See https://songbirding.com/live for more info, or if you're already a Twitch user, go to https://twitch.tv/songbirder to follow! This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.

Each year I attempt to put together a new episode for the Halloween season, but as you might be aware, finding owls is in itself a time consuming effort, let alone recording sounds of them. While I didn’t succeed in capturing much this year, I did think of what I think should be a fun fill-in. This episode will be entirely soundscapes of birds, insects, frogs, and coyotes singing in the night. It will be a standalone episode, in case you’d like to play it on a loop for a haunted house, or whatever purpose you might have in mind. This will be on both the Songbirding and Songscapes podcast feeds. Species include: Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Eastern Whippoorwill, Eastern Coyote, Common True Katydid, Chorus Frog, and more. Locations of recording were throughout southern Ontario, and in Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania. This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.