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Will there be a place I can upload bird recordings? I have half a dozen wild grouse that think they are my chickens and they have dozens of different sounds they babble at me and I have no idea what they are trying to convey. I try to mimic the sounds they make. Sometimes they chat back and forth with me until I get bored, sometimes they follow me whereas one particular sound makes them wander off.

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The Cornell Bird Lab via the Macauley Library accepts citizen science recordings

https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/folders/48000...

I think unusual bird behavior recordings are appreciated by scientists

Thankyou for that. I will check it out! Maybe one day the decoding project can ingest all the sound content.

Reading through the rules I like these people already. They prefer high quality .wav files as do I. Not sure if I have the skills to edit to their standard but I will try.

Have a look at xeno-canto as well, a large repo of animal sounds. It's more of a general archive than specifically for “understanding”, for example it’s often used to train audio recognition models.

https://xeno-canto.org/

You can also upload audio recordings to iNaturalist if you want identification and some community input. https://www.inaturalist.org/

Interesting, do you also have chickens that they associate with? Do you feed them?

I feed all the wild birds birdseed and since the grouse started following me I started giving them chicken crumble but I do not currently have chickens at the moment.

I'm sorry but that's just adorable.

No need to apologize. Many of the animals here are fun to interact with. Maybe this upcoming winter I will try to record the deer when it's feeding time. There's usually 2 or 3 fawn that are right on my heels testing each food pile to see which one is the right one not realizing they should just start with the first one to get more time to eat.

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