Nature Sounds

Birds of Peru MP3 Sound Collection by Peter Boesman

Characteristics of this MP3-DVD: 1530 bird species of Peru 3347 stereo recordings with extra information where and when each recording was made 28 hours of birdsounds (aprox. 25 CDs) uses 800 MB on an MP3-player

A MAJOR GAP GETS FILLED Peru is one of the countries with the highest diversity of birds on earth. With Birds of Peru MP3 Sound Collection, Peru finally has a major publication illustrating the vocalizations of the local avifauna. The aim of this work is to cover as many birdspecies as possible occurring in this birdrich country. It includes most of the vocalizations commonly heard while exploring Peruvian nature, with a strong focus on the ‘Peruvian landbirds’.

A LANDMARK PRODUCTION Most of the recordings have been taken by Peter Boesman in Peru itself, but to increase the overall comprehensiveness an important number comes from other neo-tropical countries. Peter could use his database of over 20.000 recordings from the Neotropics. While this formed an excellent basis to start from, it is thanks to the many contributions of other recordists that this comprehensiveness could be achieved !

A RECORD NUMBER OF BIRD SPECIES No less than 3347 recordings of 1530 species are included on this single MP3-DVD! The collection of recordings has a total playing time of over 28 hours, the equivalent of some 25 audio CD's !! Click here for the complete species list.

THE BEST OF MP3 Every recording includes embedded information such as English name, Scientific name, Date and time of recording, Locality name with coordinates, Recordist, and in some cases further remarks or comments about background species. This information can be consulted in standard software like Windows Media Player, iTunes and even on some MP3 players like the iPod series. Typically several soundfiles per species are included, e.g. to illustrate different types of vocalizations, to illustrate some degree of geographical variation or to document vocalizations from different corners of a bird’s distribution.