Blackcap Song… and More!

Reading Time: 3 minutes If we take in apart the aspect of its song, the Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, is a very crazy bird!When we hear an unusual bird song, before thinking of any kind of bird unknown to us, it’ll be better if we exclude the possibility that…

Juvenile MARSH WARBLER Subsong

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a subsong not so easy to record and particularly difficult to recognize: it is the song of a juvenile male of a Marsh Warbler, Acrocephalus palustris, about two months old, which already begins to emit its first singing phrases. In the last…

Nightingale – Nocturnal Song

Reading Time: < 1 minute Nightingale – Nocturnal Song(Listening with headphones is a must!)

Ringed Bush-cricket Grasshopper – Rhacocleis annulata – FIRST RECORD FOR NORTHERN ITALY

Reading Time: 3 minutes Here the recording of the grasshopper Ringed Bush-cricket, Rhacocleis annulata, first record for Northern Italy, which produces a call that is difficult to hear without the aid of a bat detector. The first ten phrases using a bat detector; the second ten phrases using a…

Nightingales Duet song in a marshy environment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 4. TETA – DIY Stereo Microphone – AOM 5024L capsules Here a tested AOM 5024L microphone capsule. This capsule is comparable in size and sound performance to the most known and widespread Primo EM 172 (now EM 272). The AOL is more sensitive than the…

Summer night with Orthoptera

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday’s night summer, before the thunderstorms expected for the next day (now regularly arrived!). The microphone used is a Do It Yourself “TETA Microphone”.Listening must be performed strictly on headphones, otherwise the whole description that follows loses its value.Excluding a couple of green frog…