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Start Using Spectrograms to 'Read' Bird Songs and Calls
April 12, 2017 —
Part five of our new series to help you build your birding skills—and love of birds—by learning how to bird by ear.
Nathan Pieplow is a professor at the University of Colorado and author of The Peterson Field Guide Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.