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Avian flight call monitoring station at Chatham, NY (map)

Station host: Columbia Land Conservancy

Equipment: Old Bird 21c

Microphone location: Atop the Columbia Land Conservancy office building (pic)

Established: July 2012

Warbler & sparrow nocturnal flight call data - 2015 [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] [Sep]

Date (9 pm-5 am EDT)
Total AMRE BAWW BTBW CAWA CHSP CMWA COYE CSWA GHSP HOWA INBU LI/SW MOWA NOPA NWTH OVEN SAVS WIWA WTSP YRWA ZEEP DbUp
30-1 Oct 107                                            
1-2 Oct 640                                            
2-3 Oct 379                                            
3-4 Oct n/a                                            
4-5 Oct 542                                            
5-6Oct 388                                            
6-7 Oct 386                                            
7-8 Oct 853                                            
8-9Oct 637                                            
9-10 Oct 223                                            
10-11 Oct n/a                                             
11-12 Oct 83                                            
12-13 Oct 272                                            
13-14 Oct 169                                            
14-15 Oct 790                                            
15-16 Oct 44 r                                            
16-17 Oct 133                                            
17-18 Oct 371                                            
18-19 Oct 28                                            
19-20 Oct 0                                            
20-21 Oct 37                                            
21-22 Oct 1129                                            
22-23 Oct 161                                            
23-24 Oct 123                                            
24-25 Oct r                                            
25-26 Oct 59                                            
26-27 Oct 34                                            
27-28 Oct 34                                            
28-29 Oct 0 r                                            
29-30 Oct 11                                            
30-31 Oct 35                                            
AMRE = American Redstart; ATSP = American Tree Sparrow; 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; SO/FO = Song/Fox 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. Red numbers indicate that only the first 500 call are classified to species.