Simply using the *Voice Memos app *on an iPhone works okay in a pinch.
Better yet is the free app *Voice Record Pro* (the icon is a dark red
background with a black-and-white old radio microphone). This was
recommended in Birding magazine. It's quite good and you can jack the gain,
which is nice. It also exports to Google Drive, iCloud, etc. making it easy
to get the recordings off your phone. Voice Record Pro is really the
simplest and easiest for recording in a pinch, especially if I don't want
to carry other items with me.

Otherwise, I use a Tascam DR-07 MKII. There are probably more recent models
and similar devices. With this I use a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic. Again,
there are probably more recent analogous models.

See the Forum at xeno-canto re: hardware and software.
https://xeno-canto.org/forum/

I've gotten a cable to attach my Sennheiser mic to my iPhone, so to use it
with Voice Record Pro. That seems ideal but I had major problems with the
connection and adaptors, resulting in massive glitch noises.

At the post-processing end, to zoom in on the bird and get rid of some of
the white noise, I use Audacity on my laptop. Also free. There is guidance
here on using that and other software:

https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines

happy recording!



On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:28 AM Scott Atkinson <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>
wrote:


> Hi Tweeters,

>

> Very belatedly asking if anyone out there in Tweeterland could provide me

> with an idea or two for audio recordings. Santa Claus is asking me for

> last-minute gift ideas, and I'd like to join the party of those who upload

> such recordings to EBird. Not too pricey and not too bulky preferred,

> thank you!

>

> Scott Atkinson

> Lake Stevens

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