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During a trip to Ghana guided by Foster Frimpong, he, Peter Boesman and Howard Laidlaw were treated to a number of little known voices of African bird species that Peter managed to record. For example, the brand new "the birds of Ghana" (Borrow & Demey 2022) decribes the voice of Forest Penduline Tit as 'High-pitched, barely noticeable little calls'. But high in the canopy at Kakum NP, on its famous canopy walk, the three men witnessed extraordinary duetting of this species, in which one bird excitedly sang up and down the scale, writing a sinusoidal curve on the sonogram! Similarly revealing examples are some magnificent vocalizations of Forbes's Plover ( XC718980), song in display flight of Rufous-rumped Lark ( XC719393) and the very first recordings of Emin's Shrike ( XC719235).

September 19, 2023

We updated the code and have introduced a new feature: members can search in multiple languages. Make your selection in preferences. For example, you can set the language of the site in English (useful for a more globally oriented search), but still be able to search your local species in your own language. Works only for birds (since we only have those species names in many languages worldwide). Try it out!

... also a number of bug-fixes. We'll add comments to the forum threads pointing them out.

Willem-Pier Vellinga on September 20

This works really fine for Norwegian language! Also works great for finding additional spp. during uploading. I use English as main language and searches in my native language or latin. Keep up the good work!

Stein Ø. Nilsen on September 27

September 11, 2023

The recording of a Congo Sunbird recently uploaded by Jaap van der Waarde in Congo Brazzavile was apparently a first. First as in the first known recording ever. Until a next update the species is mentioned in "Shaun's list" of unrecorded species. Fantastic & thanks for sharing Jaap!

September 4, 2023

FlackoWeasel has a soft spot for Blyth's Reed Warbler and Thrush Nightingale, two exquisite songsters from N Europe and Asia. Many of the recordings are over half an hour long. Each bird is given a name too. Check out this 1h47min recording of Piksi!

September 1, 2023

Daniel Parker is steadily adding grasshopper recordings from the Eastern US. Each first recording of a new species is accompanied by an introduction to its life history and comparisons with closely related taxa. It makes for fascinating reading. Check out the last two, Snowy tree cricket and Broad-tipped Conehead.

Wow, thanks again guys! I started adding these introductions a while ago when the Orthoptera were first added, because even though some of these species are well-known to people in the US, I thought I should introduce them to the community here in some way, including with a description of the call to c'qify which is the focal species. I think it's probably helpful for any of the Orthoptera since there are so many similar species. Most of my information comes either from Dr. Thomas J. Walker's Singing Insects of North America and Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger's The Songs of Insects. I look forward to the time when the pace of new species from around the world picks up. Ray Tsu has been adding several nice ones from China lately, and his recordings are better than mine.

Daniel Parker on September 1

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During a trip to Ghana guided by Foster Frimpong, he, Peter Boesman and Howard Laidlaw were treated to a number of little known voices of African bird species that Peter managed to record. For example, the brand new "the birds of Ghana" (Borrow & Demey 2022) decribes the voice of Forest Penduline Tit as 'High-pitched, barely noticeable little calls'.

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