xeno-canto :: bird sounds from around the world

Welcome to xeno-canto, the community database of shared bird sounds from the whole world.

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Recordings of Green-backed Trogon (Trogon viridis) in the xeno-canto collection.

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16-05-2012. James and David Bradley are back with a great set from Kenya, sporting no less than 9 new species. Keep it up, guys!
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08-05-2012. Just checked and found out that the 750th recordist joined in november 2011, and there's 840 of us now! No wonder we're behind welcoming you all. Hans Slabbekoorn was the latest new recordist yesterday, with a small set from Cameroon. Hopefully there is more in store from there!

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Posted by Willem-Pier Vellinga on 2012-05-08, 7:09:

also some nice additions from Mozambique recently by Rory Nefdt, and just yesterday Phil Gregory uploaded 2 nuggets from PNG and the Solomons. Always cool.

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30-04-2012. XC100000 has arrived! A Pacific Pygmy Owl by Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado from Ecuador is the eternal winner. The 100,000th recording on XC will follow in about a month or two, in all likelihood.
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27-04-2012. unique occasion for XC: back-to-back contributions from Belgium and Ireland, by Franck Hidvegi & Morgan Williams respectively. Keep it up because Ireland and Belgium are both really underrepresented.
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27-04-2012. some cool XC numbers are up for grabs in the next few days: XC99999, XC100000, XC100001. The XC numbers are slightly higher than the number of recordings mainly because of problems with some large sets of recordings in the early days. These were re-uploaded with other numbers.
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26-04-2012. 650+ recordings by Mike Nelson from 2 weeks in Cameroon. well done Mike!

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Posted by Mike Nelson on 2012-04-26, 22:27:

Still have a few left and several mysteries to work through which I should get done soon. Just pleased to add some new species to the site.

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Spotlight

In June 2011, a team of Chinese and Swedish researchers rediscovered the breeding area for the poorly known Blackthroat Luscinia obscura, in the Qinling mountains, Shaanxi province, north central China. Seven singing males were observed in Foping and seven more in Changqing National Nature Reserves – which almost equals the total number of individuals observed of this species since its discovery in the late 19th century. Several individuals were sound recorded, and two of the recordings have been made freely available. Per Alstrom has kindly agreed to place them on XC as well.

Blackthroat Luscinia obscura Chengdu University campus, Sichuan, China, 2nd May 2011. Photograph by He Yi.

Try this! Simple urls

Recordings of a certain genus can be found with a simple url like for instance: www.xeno-canto.org/genus/Grallaria the links in the list next to the maps will take you to a species page.

Recordings of a certain species can be found with a simple url like for instance: www.xeno-canto.org/species/Grallaria-rufula

A single recording can be found with its catalogue number: www.xeno-canto.org/XC12345 or even www.xeno-canto.org/12345

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