In this age of computers, I'm wondering if there is any software that will help me try to match a bird song or call. What I'm looking for is a CD or on-line site, like the whatbird.com songs & sounds software, that will offer an interactive option of "sounds like..." calls.
As an example: I live in east-central Alabama, so we have lots of resident songbirds and plenty of seasonal migrants. We live in a rural area of mixed hardwoods with pockets of forest vs. open fields. This means we frequently hear birds that we are unable to spot. My husband and I are not experts, but we are familiar with most of our resident and common migrant populations. Still, we hear bird songs and calls that we don't recognize.
I want a way to identify an unfamiliar bird call by looking up one that is similar, listening to that call, and if it's not the same as what I've heard, I want a link to similar-sounding calls, or "call is easily confused with" calls. This would be like an audio version of the "similar species" descriptions in a birding book. Does that make sense? Does anyone produce such software for the bird-watching consumer?
Moccasin
