“The Macaulay Library at the Cor­nell Lab of Ornithol­ogy is the  world’s largest nat­ural sound and video archive of ani­mal behav­ior. Its mis­sion is to col­lect and pre­serve record­ings of each species behav­ior and nat­ural his­tory and to make them avail­able for research, edu­ca­tion, con­ser­va­tion, zoos and aquaria, wildlife man­agers, pub­lish­ers, the arts, and both pub­lic and com­mer­cial media. Since 1930, recordists of all back­grounds have con­tributed their record­ings, which now num­ber to sev­eral hun­dred thou­sand in total. A large per­cent­age of the record­ings can be searched and played online.”

The library uses a free browser plu­gin called Raven­Viewer, which ‘enables you to see and visu­ally ana­lyze the sound as you play it.’   There is a search box, or one can browse tax­o­nom­i­cally or by com­mon names.

Source:  [ResourceShelf] Newslet­ter No.411