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Avian flight call monitoring station at Joseph Allan Skinner State Park MA (map)

Station host: Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Equipment: Old Bird 21c

Microphone location: Atop the Summit House (pic)

Established: Aug 2012

Warbler & sparrow nocturnal flight call data - 2014 [2013] [2012]

The data below indicate tentative species classifications of avian nocturnal flight calls detected during the indicated time periods. Numerical values in the table indicate the number of calls detected. Numbers within parentheses indicate the number of call instances for a species that are separated by at least a minute from another call of that species. See species key below.

[Aug]

Date (8:30pm-5:30am EDT)
Total AMRE BAWW BTBW BUNT CAWA CHSP CCSP CMWA COYE CSWA GHSP HOWA LCSP LI/SW MOWA NOPA NWTH OVEN PAWA SAVS WCSP WIWA WTSP YRWA ZEEP DbUp
Aug 31-Sep 1 75                                                    
Sep 1-2 288                                                    
Sep 2-3 39                                                    
Sep 3-4 460                                                    
Sep 4-5 123                                                    
Sep 5-6 8                                                    
Sep 6-7 347                                                    
Sep 7-8  488                                                    
Sep 8-9 91                                                    
Sep 9-10 158                                                    
Sep 10-11 78                                                    
Sep 11-12 37                                                    
Sep 12-13 114                                                    

AMRE = American Redstart; BAWW = Black-and-white Warbler; BTBW = Black-throated Blue Warbler; BUNT = Neotropical migrant bunting and Blue Grosbeak; CAWA = Canada Warbler; CHSP = Chipping Sparrow; CCSP =Clay-colored Sparrow; CMWA = Cape May Warbler; COYE = Common Yellowthroat; CSWA = Chestnut-sided Warbler; GHSP = Grasshopper Sparrow; HOWA = Hooded Warbler; LCSP = LeConte's Sparrow; LI/SW = Lincoln's or Swamp Sparrow;  MOWA = Mourning Warbler; NOPA = Parula Warbler type; NWTH = Northern Waterthrush; OVEN = Ovenbird type; SAVS = Savannah Sparrow type; WIWA = Wilson's Warbler; WTSP = White-throated Sparrow; YRWA = Yellow-rumped Warbler; ZEEP = species complex (Yellow Warbler Cerulean Warbler Connecticut Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Worm-eating Warbler and Kentucky Warbler); DbUp = species complex of short double-banded upsweep callers (Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler). White-crowned Sparrow and Vesper Sparrow are also included in this complex.

Total = total of all warbler and sparrow flight calls detected by Tseep-r for the indicated time period. It includes both calls classified to species and calls not yet classified. Clicking the "total" link initiates downloading a zip file of all detected warbler and sparrow calls including ones too faint to classify. These files can be easily browsed with Old Bird's GlassOFire spectrogram viewer or with Cornell Lab of Ornithology's commercially available Raven software. The "other" folder within each zip file contains calls that have not yet been classified to species. A small "r" after the total indicates that rain occurred during the night and influenced the number and audio quality of the calls. A small "w" after the total indicates that strong winds occured during the night and influenced the number and audio quality of the calls.