An
archive of tens of thousands of animal sounds has just gone online.
The
searchable Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology boasts nearly
150,000 digital audio recordings, covering about 9,000 noisy species, with a
total run time of 7,513 hours. Though there's an emphasis on birds, the
collection contains sounds from across the animal kingdom, from elephants to
elephant seals.
Some
of the highlights of the collection include recordings of the curl-crested
manucode, a bird-of-paradise in New Guinea, whose otherworldly calls sound
like UFOs
landing in a sci-fi movie. There's also a clip of a song sparrow
recorded in 1929 by Cornell Lab founder Arthur Allen, which is the earliest
recording in the collection.
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