Exciting deployment of these acoustic song meters by Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. in another one of the Important Bird Areas in Nigeria - International institute of tropical agriculture.
Nature is a complete sensory experience. There is definitely more than meets the eye!😃
Any tips for this work?
We are primarily targeting nocturnal birds.Â
I am a conservation biologist with experience working in zimbabwe and Nigeria. My areas of interest are: ornithology, conservation technology, conservation communications and Community Based Natural Resource Management.
I am currently working at a cattle and wildlife ranch deploying the Holistic management framework to ensure coexistence between people, planet and profit.
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Hi Joan, thanks for sharing! @Grace Alawa may have some insights to share here given her expertise on birds and being based in Nigeria too.Â
Thank you Thirza!
Hi Joan, good you find it interesting. My mentee Yitmwa Joel actually won a grant with Wildlife Acoustics to monitor nocturnal birds in Amurum forest, Jos where the Ornithological Research Institute for West Africa is situated. I think she'll be in a better position to help you. You can Dm me for her contact.Â
Hi Grace!
Thanks for connecting and for the heads up :)
I am actually with Yitmwa at the same institute!😅She has been super helpful on getting me hooked to bioacoustics 😊. I'm reallfinding it interesting and would like to apply the technique when I go back home to Zimbabwe.Â
Awesome Joan, welldone.
@Yitmwa Joel can you help out here
@Yitmwa Joel : would be great to hear your thoughts on this too :)
Thanks for offering your thoughts @Grace Alawa and @Merlyn Nomusa NkomoÂ
Supercool work Jo!
what were your settings and what's your intended analysis software? Also, what is your intention, is it a population inventory, demographics, or song analysis?Â
I've used them before in Bots and Moz. First for understanding bird song and the latter, for surveying for a rare forest bird. I found them really great and set mine at 30-minute intervals. This setting though returns a lot of data. But since your study is for nocturnal birds, it will help you to make sure the interval is shorter and confined to just the nighttime. You don't really need hours and hours of recordings (in my experience).Â