{"id":14449,"date":"2014-07-18T07:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2014-07-18T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:40:27","slug":"friday-fun-be-a-better-bird-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/14449","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: “Be a Better Bird Nerd”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I used bird cams<\/a> for Friday Fun. But I can’t resist another birds-on-the-brain entry!<\/p>\n

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology challenges you to be a better bird nerd! Take its Bird Song Hero challenge, and then the “ultimate” challenge! Can you recognize the visualization of a bird’s song? There’s a brief training video<\/a> first. I remember being asked to draw my visualize of some music for a class long, long ago…<\/p>\n

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And if you’re interested in learning more, Andersen Library has resources! Searching the catalog<\/a> will find titles such as A study of bird song<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QL698.5 .A7 1973)and A guide to bird songs; descriptions and diagrams of the songs and singing habits of land birds and selected species of shore birds<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QL698 .S355 1951). Searching article databases<\/a> will find titles including “Finding Motifs in Birdsong Data in the Presence of Acoustic Noise and Temporal Jitter<\/a>” (Behavioral Neuroscience<\/em>, 2014, vol.128:no. 2, pp.228\u2013236).<\/p>\n

Want help? Ask a librarian<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I used bird cams for Friday Fun. But I can’t resist another birds-on-the-brain entry! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology challenges you to be a better bird nerd! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[141,2738,2737,1726,178,220,657,658],"class_list":["post-14449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-articles","tag-audio","tag-birding","tag-birds","tag-books","tag-fun-stuff","tag-nature","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions\/14451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}