Birding in Mato Grosso and Brazil

Sounds:
At the moment a selection of my sound recordings are available for listening and download at xeno-canto, an excellent online database of bird songs from throughout the Americas. Here is a direct link to my recordings online.

I have recorded bird song using both analog tape recorders (Marantz 222 and Sony TCM5000) and minidisk (Sony Hi-MD). I now use the Marantz PMD-660, a digital CF recorder which I am generally pleased with. All of my recordings are made using a Sennheiser ME-67 long shotgun microphone. No complaints there.

I am in the process of preparing my Amazonian recordings for archival in the Bird Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) for inclusion in their database project to create biogeographically accurate distribution maps for Amazonian birds (see Bechtoldt and Cohn-Haft, p.232).


Videos:
On some of my birding trips I have had varying degrees of success with 'digi-binning'. Check out some short clips below.
Andean Tit-Spinetail (Colombia)                               Black-billed Mountain-Toucan (Colombia)
Black-cheeked Gnateater (Brazil)                              Blue-backed Manakin (Brazil)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Mexico)                         Calliope Hummingbird (Mexico)
Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch (Mexico)                 Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo (Mexico)
Collared Plover (Brazil)                                             Common Bush-Tanager (Mexico)
Eastern Meadowlark (Mexico)                                 Golden-browed Warbler (Mexico)
Harpy Eagle (Brazil)                                                 Kentucky Warbler (Mexico)
Long-tailed Potoo (Brazil)                                        Mexican Antthrush (Mexico)
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper (Bolivia)                      Olive Warbler (Mexico)
Pheasant Cuckoo (Bolivia)                                       Pied Puffbird (Brazil)
Plain Chachalaca (Mexico)                                       Plush-crested Jay (Brazil)   
Red Warbler (Mexico)                                             Reddish Hermit (Brazil)
Rufous-naped Wren (Mexico)                                  Rufous-necked Puffbird (Brazil)
Spotted Woodcreeper (Mexico)                              Squirrel Cuckoo (Brazil)
"Eastern" Striped Manakin (Brazil)                            Townsend's Warbler (Mexico)
White-bibbed Antbird (Brazil)                                  White-winged Tanager (Mexico)