An endangered bird calls less when invasive birds are calling

This chapter studies Judith Weir’s The Voice of Desire (2003). Weir’s music is fresh, concise, and instantly recognizable, and it successfully assimilates, within a modern idiom, the elements of traditional music and storytelling which are integral to her artistic persona. The piece sets four poems concerning the ambivalent relationships between birds and humans. As may be expected, bird calls and sounds of nature are illustrated strikingly, especially in the piano part. The selected texts provide plenty of variety in mood and character: the first and third songs are the most substantial, and the last a sublimely simple strophic ‘jingle’ which has to be delivered with understated aplomb. The vocal tessitura stays in a rewarding medium range for the most part, taking advantage of natural resonances that can penetrate the texture with ease and adapt to timbral shadings according to context. Helpful pitch-cues, including unisons, are to be found frequently in the piano part. Although originally written for mezzo, it can also be performed effectively by a counter-tenor.

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON BIRD CALLS IN NIGERIA

Ostrich ◽

10.1080/00306525.1959.9633347 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 30 (sup1) ◽

pp. 379-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. H. Elgood

Keyword(s):

Bird Calls

Dynamic species distribution models reveal spatiotemporal habitat shifts in native range-expanding versus non-native invasive birds in an urban area

Journal of Avian Biology ◽

10.1111/jav.01527 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. jav-01527 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Marine Le Louarn ◽

Philippe Clergeau ◽

Diederik Strubbe ◽

Magali Deschamps-Cottin

Keyword(s):

Urban Area ◽

Species Distribution ◽

Species Distribution Models ◽

Native Range ◽

Distribution Models ◽

Native Invasive ◽

Invasive Birds

Automatic detection of short time periodic bird calls in realistic monitoring scenarios

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.2932956 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 123 (5) ◽

pp. 3099-3099

Author(s):

Daniel Wolff ◽

Klaus H. Tauchert ◽

Karl H. Frommolt ◽

Rolf Bardeli ◽

Frank Kurth ◽

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Keyword(s):

Automatic Detection ◽

Bird Calls ◽

Short Time ◽

Time Periodic