It is only fitting that this Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), a species with startling and unparalleled beauty, should grace the starting page of the sound recordings section of our Website. The Painted Bunting is one example of the avifauna of South Texas.
One of the best ways to appreciate the vast and complex variety in the natural environment is to close your eyes and listen. We hope you will be as amazed as we are. You’ll here one example by clicking on the data image at the bottom of this page, but the second menu, the white menu, is where you can hear many more examples from out collection.
Because these recordings are intended to preserve the maximum value for the research community, in most cases, we have preserved the spacing between the animal’s songs and calls on the principle that the rate of vocalizations are of value as an accurate record of the animal’s behavior. Some of you will find this tiring, sometimes single bursts of song, and then background noise for many seconds before the animals sings or call again.
With each recording, there is valuable metadata in the associate image from the database manager in which we organize the collection. All the recordings you hear on our site have been uploaded to the BackBlaze Cloud and each link (click the gray recording information box) points to a recording preserved at BackBlaze.com. Below, is an example of how each entry should appear.
You may use the site search tool at the top of the left sidebar to search our site for a particular species, or other information.
Here is an example of how the “Play a song, call, or other sound.” The entire image is a hyperlink that take you to BackBlaze.com and a player that can be used to hear the sound. Once you have listened to the sound, simply click the back-arrow and return to naturesoundsarchive.org.
