Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Timber Lake - June 10 - 1:39PM

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Title Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Timber Lake - June 10 - 1:39PM
Common Name Fox Sparrow
Scientific Name Passerella iliaca
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Emberizidae
Genus Passerella
Subject Ambient sounds; Places; Nature sounds; Birds
Spatial Coverage Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska); Alaska; Timber Lake (North Slope Borough, Alaska)
Creator Krause, Bernard L.
Media Rights Management Principal Investigator: Bernie Krause, PhD; Project collaborators and associates: Kevin Colver, Martyn Stewart
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive, University of Utah
Contributors Colver, Kevin J.; Stewart, Martyn, 1955-
Date 2006-06-10
Type Sound
Format audio/mpeg
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format.
Contributing Institution Support for the Arctic Soundscape Project was provided by the Animal Welfare Institute, Calgary Zoo, Harvard University, Google (Firm), Johnson Outdoor Industries, Madrone Audubon Society, Maine Community Foundation, Patagonia, Inc., SanDisk, SkyWalker Sound, individual residents of the Sonoma County community, Stanford University, University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; 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 ambient recording
Note Field notes: 1k tone @ beginning = 64dBA at mic input (for calibration) Late spring. Weather conditions extreme during any hour (cold, windy, snow, rain, warm). Former hunting camp where wildlife generally shy of humans. No predators or large megafauna seen over 10 day period on site. Location: Fox sparrow off of stream bed to east of campsite w/ mics facing E across stream - hence the stream noise… Season: Spring; Climate: Dry (cyclical); Weather: Light wind (to 10MPH); Altitude: 2725 feet; Biome: Arctic; Terrestrial habitat: Boreal-tiaga-tundra; Species heard: Fox Sparrow (red); :Local time: 1:39PM
Global Positioning System Coordinates 68.386111 / -146.414444
Species Range (Southwestern States) http://www.westernsoundscape.org/maps/speciesExtent.php?species=179464
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.102367
Additional Resources Arctic Soundscape Project; http://www.wildsanctuary.com/popv2/pop_arctic
Source File Recording Equipment Recorder: Sound Devices 722; Microphone: Senn. 30/40 MS combo; Mic pattern: M-S; Sample Bit rates: 44.1/24/WAV
ARK ark:/87278/s6wq0h2x
Setname uu_wss
ID 1117633
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wq0h2x
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