| Title |
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve-- Egrets, Gulls, Heron and Cormorants-- at spillway 110204 |
| Common Name |
Snowy Egret; Great Egret |
| Scientific Name |
Egretta thula; Ardea alba |
| Kingdom |
Animalia |
| Phylum |
Craniata |
| Class |
Aves |
| Order |
Ciconiiformes |
| Family |
Ardeidae |
| Subject |
Birds; Places; Nature sounds; Ambient sounds |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (Calif.); Huntington Beach (Calif.); Orange County (Calif.); California |
| Creator |
Rice, Jeff |
| Media Rights Management |
Audio file copyright 2011, 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/ |
| Date |
2011-02-04 |
| Type |
Sound |
| Format |
audio/mpeg |
| Digitization Specifications |
Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format |
| Contributing Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Description |
Ambient recording |
| Note |
Birds gather at a spillway where salt water from the Pacific Ocean flows into a large wetland area; birds gathered to feed on a school of fish and included numerous cormorants and snowy egrets, a Great Egret, a Great Blue Heron and numerous gulls; winds 3-4 mph, temperature 64 degrees Fahrenheit, humidity 68%; high level of automobile noise from nearby highway one; elevation sea level; local time approximately 4:10 PM |
| Global Positioning System Coordinates |
33.69555 / -118.04655 |
| Source File Recording Equipment |
Telinga Stereo DAT Pro 6 parabolic microphone to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 48 kHz/24 bit sampling rate |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s60c589j |
| Setname |
uu_wss |
| ID |
1119606 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60c589j |
