Questions tagged [fieldwork]
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What's the "best" sound level meter available on the market?
I am thinking of purchasing a sound level meter to use for opportunistic measurements of shorebird vocalizations in the field this summer (Utqiagvik, Alaska). There are many options online, but I'm ...
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What are folks doing with extra microSD card adapters?
With the amount of ST600 deployments we do, I order a lot of microSD cards. Every time they come with an adapter, which I do not need more than 2 or 3 on hand. I have a dedicated microSD card case to ...
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How to avoid that cables get entangled in the field?
Does anybody have an advice to keep cables from entangling horribly during field recording?
I have the cable from the microphone and the cable from the headphones, both longer than I can handle with ...
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Audiomoths availability
I am new to this Forum so hopefully I can address my question effectively. I am a grad-student in Ecology and I am planning my field season for this summer. I am needing about 10 Audiomoths but they ...
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What affordable hydrophone options exist for in-the-field listening?
I am looking to purchase a hydrophone and speaker system that I can use to identify singing humpback whales while at sea, in order to deploy different tags to better understand song behavior on ...
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Is there any bioacoustics research team(s) in New York City (USA)? [closed]
I'm a science journalist in New York City (USA) interested in reporting on bioacoustics research. Does anyone know of (or do!) any bioacoustic research in or near New York City (~3-hr drive)?
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Can you have SoundTrap recorders as carry-on luggage in a plane?
I will be travelling in the field by plane with a SoundTrap recorder and its hydrophone. It will be an international flight (USA to Canada) with Air Canada. I am planning to take this as a carry on ...
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Resources specific to bioacoustics fieldwork in terrestrial settings
I'm a practitioner who has come into bioacoustics from a non-ecology background, as my practice up to 2020 was largely confined to sound art, field recording and holistic aspects of acoustic ecology.
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What amplitude do you use for playbacks?
When performing playback experiments with birds, is there a biologically relevant source level for song playbacks?
I have read that a standard value is 90 dB @ 1 m, however I could not find a good ...
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Where do you put a terrestrial recorder if you have no freestanding structures to attach it to, and also can't put a stake in the ground?
I have a terrestrial acoustic monitoring situation that presents two challenges:
Acoustic monitoring is being conducted in an area with limited options for attaching the units (i.e., very few ...
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Pros and cons directional mic vs parabola
While searching through the bird song literature, I realized there are two schools for recording songs. Some people use a directional microphone and some people use a parabola.
I was wondering why to ...
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Using a Raspberry Pi (Or Similar) to build an underwater recording device?
I am curious if anyone has had any experience building an acoustic recorder from a small, cheap computer like a Raspberry Pi. I have a detection algorithm I wrote in Python and I know can run on an ...
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leaving mics in a cave during fieldwork
I'm recording bats in a cave with many small (Knowles SPU-0410), and big (Sanken CO-100) mics.
The cave is mostly isolated from the outside, with a temperature between 10-15C inside, and it could get ...
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Reliable lousdpeaker for low frequency noise playback?
For an experiment on the impact of traffic noise on bird behaviour, I tried to playback some low frequency traffic noise with a fixed amplitude. While (trying to) adjust the noise amplitude, I ...
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Measurements to know if my field-recordings are good?
Fieldwork means having all the equipment in place to record the animals (in my case bats) when I see them. I try to look at the audio as soon as they're recorded to check if the settings are okay. I ...
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