AZFO MP3 Bird Sounds Library:
Information and Directions

The AZFO Bird Sounds Library features recordings made in Arizona or, for selected rarities, from nearby areas.  Its purpose is to provide a tool for learning local song dialects and calls of species that occur in Arizona and to (eventually) post multiple recordings from throughout the state to document geographical variation in song dialect.

We encourage contributions of additional recordings or write ups.  See link on sidebar.

Excellent advice on getting started making your own recordings is available at the Wildlife Sound Recording Society website

Note before using:

Connection Speed:  These are LARGE files, NOT recommended over dialup connections

Browser Compatibility:  The Sound Library works best on the PC in Internet Explorer.  There have been problems in the past with running it on the PC in Firefox, although these seem to have been resolved.  Upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Flash Player if you experience problems.  It is reported to work fine on the Mac in both Safari and Firefox.

Click here to go to Bird Sound Library. 

To Quickly Play a Song: Click on the play button to the left of each species

• On some browsers you have to click twice (once to activate, once to play)
• When button is white, click to play from the beginning, click again to pause
• When paused, button is green, click again to resume
• To rewind to beginning, click tiny box in lower left of button while song is playing
• Button turns white again when recording ends (Some bird song recordings have long silences.  If button is green, recording is still playing.)
• More than one song can play at once!

          Try this example to experiment:

•   Common Ground-Dove - 01 July 2006

To use Quicktime Plugin to Play Song:  Click on a species name to launch a new window and use the more full featured Quicktime Plugin (press your browser's back button to return)

To Play the Song with Other MP3 Players:  Download the song and use any MP3 player software (iTunes, etc) to play the song. We recommend the Raven Lite player for birdsongs (see sidebar)

To Download the MP3 File:
Right-Click on a species name and choose "Save target as" in Internet Explorer or "Save link as" in Mozilla Fixefox

All recordings are copyrighted© by the recordist. Downloading and copying are authorized for noncommercial educational or personal use only.  AZFO discourages the use of playback in the field to attract nesting species into view, particularly rare, sparse or local nesters in the state.  See the ABA Code of Ethics.