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with any responses Sue Trevathan (mccalluma at qwest.net)

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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:11:40 -0700

A free workshop on the use of tape recordings in bird census work is
being offered as part of the AOU (American Ornithologists' Union) annual
meeting in Seattle in August. The workshop will be held from 9AM to noon on
Wednesday, August 15. This workshop is designed for people who are in the
field making point counts and other kinds of bird censuses. If you would
like to learn more, including the exact location of the workshop, see the
meeting website:

<http://depts.washington.edu/bird2001/workshops.html>http://depts.washington.edu
/bird2001/workshops.html

That URL will take you to the workshops home page, but you can get to
general meeting info from a menu on the same page. Please note that a
roundtable on migration monitoring will be held the afternoon of the 15th.

The sound workshop will present information on how to reduce error in
census work by recording while censusing, then reviewing the recordings
afterwards. An equipment review will tell you how low you can go in cost
and still get useful recordings. (It's lower than you think). We will show
you how you can review your tapes visually and aurally at the same time
with a new, free spectrogram program (and it does much more than that).
During the afternoon those interested can hang around and get proficient at
using this software. We'll have presentations on the psychology of sound
perception, and on the impact of environmental noise on the birds and on
your recordings. On top of this material for the field worker, the workshop
will wind up with presentations on some high tech approaches to bird
monitoring with sound, including automated event detection, remote
recording, and super-sensitive new microphones that have been developed
expressly for bird-monitoring.

I hope you can come. I think it will be a memorable event. If interested,
please email me so I can get a head count. I'll be happy to answer any
questions.

Thanks,

Arch McCallum, PhD
Eugene, Oregon
mccalluma at qwest.net