Playing Sounds and Videos

The eField Guide page for each species typically has a Sound Recordings section. (There are a few birds without sounds – typically seabirds or very rare birds.) Here you can click Play to hear the birds sound. You can also click Loop to hear the sound recording play over and over again. (We have been told that cats “love” this feature!). You can also click spectrogram to actually see an image of the bird’s sound. The spectrogram is a free add-on feature we provide called Raven Lite. It is a product created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Visit the Raven Lite web site for technical help or questions about this particular feature.

 

Some species have video clips showing the bird in action. To watch these, click the word play just below the thumbnail image. Two buttons are shown below the video. Click Play to start the video. Once you click this, the button label changes to Pause. There is also a Stop button to end the video. You may click View and then click Video Size to select an image size of 50%, 100% or 200%. You may drag the corners of a video to enlarge it or shrink it. The picture quality will become grainy as you enlarge the image.