Why collect animal sounds?
Recordings from the Macaulay Library have been used to: • Learn bird identification, • Create family trees for bird species, • Study geographic variation in song, • Help engineers create machines that discriminate between kinds of sounds, • Get names of and information about bird species from native peoples, • Attract birds to a restored breeding habitat, • Create audio guides for surveying areas where the animals are heard but not seen. • And provide authentic background sounds or create vocalizations for fantastical movie creatures.
