Bird Watching Guatemala Blog

Great Kiskadee Most people who like go outside and enjoy bird watching can identify the bird in the picture, a Great Kiskadee. Many birders know that the name comes from the song of this common and widely distributed flycatcher. But no one can say where he is come from… Little differences in songs exist in birds that breeds in different countries and is more obvious when you use a bird song tape. If you have a record of a bird taken in different countries, birds will ignore the sound like they do with a parrot call. I found this little friend in Río Dulce, Guatemala. Posted by Maynor Ovando http://www.birdwatchingguatemala.com/ is a registered trademark of Martsam Tour & Travel Copyright® 2,008 http://www.birdwatchingguatemala.com/ http://www.martsam.com/

Xeno-canto website One of the most fascinating facts about birds is their ability to perform songs and calls, a kind of language unique for each species, so specific that we can identify them just by hear. It’s really amazing to know that in wide spread bird species there are sound differences for these songs. So a Great Kiskadee from USA has a different accent that a Guatemalan one. A web site you can’t miss if you want to learn about bird songs is Xeno-canto , an incredible database with sounds from all over the Neotropic. This community has increased its collection enough to include a section for Africa and Asia. You can contribute uploading mp3 sounds if you have any, participate in forums, share sonograms, upload pictures and many other activities. Or simply look for sounds you are interested in and get a better knowledge. Right now Guatemala is poorly represented in this project, but all of us have the opportunity to get info from our birding trips and add new items. Posted by M...