{"id":2,"date":"2009-04-21T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-01-03T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:12:39","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/author","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Recording<\/a>
Recording a Brown Creeper, Boulder County, Colorado, 28 March 2007. Click on the photo to hear the recording I was making when the photo was taken–and to hear Bill Schmoker taking the photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nathan Pieplow<\/h2>\n

Book me as a speaker<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Growing up in South Dakota, I got started identifying bird songs by studying the classic “Birding By Ear” field guides in the Peterson series.\u00a0 It wasn’t until 2003, when I faced the frustrations of studying sounds for my first trips to Mexico and Costa Rica, that I became dedicated to finding new and better ways to learn, describe,\u00a0 and catalog bird sounds.\u00a0 Along the way I became a sound recordist and an amateur ethologist (a student of animal behavior).<\/p>\n

I’m not one of those superhuman beings who can identify every singing bird, or discern the nocturnal flight call of a Blackpoll Warbler as it passes overhead in the dark.\u00a0 My high-frequency hearing is getting worse every year, and I don’t have a great auditory memory.\u00a0 For me to learn bird sounds, I wanted more resources: more recordings, better glossaries, deeper discussions.\u00a0 So I set out to create my own resources.\u00a0 These pages are part of the result. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds<\/em><\/a> is another part.<\/p>\n

I live in Boulder, Colorado, where I teach writing and rhetoric at the University of Colorado. I am a former editor of the quarterly journal <\/code>Colorado Birds<\/em><\/a> and one of the developers of the Colorado County Birding Website<\/a> and the Colorado Birding Trail<\/a>.\u00a0 I regularly give talks about bird sounds<\/a> to bird clubs and ornithological societies. Contact me at npieplow@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

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\"Recording<\/a>
Recording a Gould’s Toucanet, Cristalino Lodge, Brazil, September 2009. Click to hear the recording.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andrew Spencer<\/h2>\n

I started watching birds when I was about five, but didn’t start recording until after my first trip to South America, to Ecuador in 2006. While there I realized that the ability to record birds in the tropic was absolutely fundamental to fully enjoying South American birding, and as soon as I got back I bought my first recording rig.<\/p>\n

In the few years since then I have become ever more deeply obsessed with recording…what at first was something to help call unknown birds in and document unknown sounds for later identification became a quest to record as many species, songs, and call types as I could. As a result I have traveled around much of the US and South America recording birds.\u00a0 Contact me at gwwarbler@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Pieplow Book me as a speaker Growing up in South Dakota, I got started identifying bird songs by studying the classic “Birding By Ear” field guides in the Peterson series.\u00a0 It wasn’t until 2003, when I faced the frustrations of studying sounds for my first trips to Mexico and Costa Rica, that I became dedicated to finding new and better ways to learn, describe,\u00a0 and catalog bird sounds.\u00a0 Along the way I became a sound recordist and an amateur…<\/p>\n

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