In my quest to learn bird songs I have decided to enlist technology. Happily there is wonderful and free technology out there for aiding birders to recognize songs and calls. I just downloaded Raven Lite from the wonderful Cornell Lab of Ornithology. With this software I can record bird sounds and then get a visual impression of them.

The song of a cute little Blaumeise recorded from my balcony looks like this:

This visualization is called a spectrogram. I think it is really fantastic because it provides a ready visual aid for the sounds, which will certainly help in remembering them. Unfortunately I can’t upload sound to this blogging site, but you can hear my recording here at the wonderful website xeno-canto.