Carrol Cowan wrote:
> is anyone familiar with this site for bird songs?  any recommendations?
>
>   
Carrol,

I just used Xeno-canto to find and listen to call notes made by a 
Connecticut Warbler. For whatever reason, Stokes and Lang CD Guide to 
Eastern Bird Song only has Conn Warbler song and not its chip notes. 
Wanted to be ready in case I come across one in the field. I saved 
("save as source" in Quicktime) the sound file to my computer to 
transfer to my iPOD for personal use with my portable speaker. I think 
you need the upgrade of Quicktime (Quicktime Pro) to do this however.
 
I also use it sometimes to help me ID some of the non-passerine night 
migrants I record over my house in Gaithersburg. Some of the recordings 
at Xeno Canto are not same quality (but there more like you might hear 
in field) as found at Cornell's Library of Natural Sounds but Xeno Canto 
has better "descriptors" of whether the recording is a song, call note, 
or flight call, making it easier to find what your looking for (if they 
have it).

Hope this helps,

Andy Martin
Gaithersburg