Ipods

[amott69]

I've just been given an ipod for christmas and was hopeing to get some wildlife sounds and calls downloaded so i can play them in the woods(trying to get animals to come closer to me). does anyone no were i can get downlods

 

[Shewie]

Try doing a search for "podcast" on here, there`s some interesting stuff to be found. I don`t know of any sounds files yet though.



Rich

 

[Humpback]

I have British Bird Song (four discs, 200 calls) on my mp3 player they were free with the Independent newspaper. I would expect they are available from the RSPB. www.rspb.org,uk

Won't you need speakers for out loud play back?

Alan

 

[Jared]

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/macaulaylibrary/

Not sure how would get them on your ipod though.

 

[w00dsmoke]

I've just been given an ipod for christmas and was hopeing to get some wildlife sounds and calls downloaded so i can play them in the woods(trying to get animals to come closer to me). does anyone no were i can get downlods

I'm not sure but this may be illegal depending on what you want to do once they get close!

WS

 

[JonnyP]

Getting the headphones on the animals, so they can hear the sounds may be tough...
You'll be better off learning some tricks which do not require technology to attract wildlife to you, like sucking on the back of your hand to attract foxes, tapping on trees with a piece of wood to attract greater spotted woodpeckers, or how about learning tracking skills...

 

[Kerne]

Try the Beeb at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml
for some common British birds.

 

[amott69]

Getting the headphones on the animals, so they can hear the sounds may be tough...
You'll be better off learning some tricks which do not require technology to attract wildlife to you, like sucking on the back of your hand to attract foxes, tapping on trees with a piece of wood to attract greater spotted woodpeckers, or how about learning tracking skills...

i've done a number of tracking courses and done all the sweaking, tapping trees and baiting that i can handle with loads of success, it just i don't have a lot of other uses for a ipod and i think it would be interesting to see how affective it could be.
Also i would add i have no intention of harming any animal its just for fun!

 

[redcollective]

Try this treasure trove of birdsong links on for size:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/links.html

Stu

 

[JonnyP]

Trouble with playing bird song at birds is that you are more likely to scare them away rather than attract them to you. A lot of bird song is *this is my patch, this is my patch, sod off* Also a lot of bird song is in pitches that humans can't hear, so it is possible that the ipod wouldn't be able to play those pitches.
I do a lot of mimiking when out and have noticed that some birds will respond to sound. Robins and Wrens get aggitated at me making a tik tik tik type of sound. I think that they reckon someone else is on their patch. Blackbirds can respond too, but most birds do not take any notice (proberbly wondering what the big prat on the ground is going on about)

 

[familne]

If you've got an iPod that can play video then Birdguides have produced a guide specifically for it! See here: http://www.birdguides.com/estore/browse.asp?cat=39

They also have just mp3 files of birdsong for any mp3 player.

 

[Shewie]

This site`s got some useful stuff on it too ....

http://www.naturesound.org/Home.html



Rich