Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve (Utah); Davis County (Utah); Utah
Frog Call
Breeding Season: March-August
Creator
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2008, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date
2008-05-01
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Description
The calls of boreal chorus frogs near the Nature Conservancy's Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve on a chilly spring evening
Photo Rights Management
Photographer unknown; photo courtesy of Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Note
Recorded in full darkness. Air temperature was cold. There was little wind. Skies were partly cloudy. There had been light snow flurries during the day. Exact location temperature readings are not available, but according to the National Weather Service, the high temperature for the day near Salt Lake City International Airport was 48 degrees Fahrenheit, the low was 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures for the day were 15 degrees below normal. Recorded using Senheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones in an MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate. Equalization was applied to the recording to diminish some distant road noise.; Local Time: 9:15 PM
