Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve-- Egrets, Gulls, Heron and Cormorants-- at spillway 110204
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Common Name
Snowy Egret; Great Egret
Scientific Name
Egretta thula; Ardea alba
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Ciconiiformes
Family
Ardeidae
Subject
Birds; Places; Nature sounds; Ambient sounds
Place Names
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (Calif.); Huntington Beach (Calif.); Orange County (Calif.); California
Creator of Media Recording
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2011, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Date.Original
2011-02-04
Resource Type
sound
Format
audio/wav
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112;
Recording Description
Ambient recording
Notes
Birds gather at a spillway where salt water from the Pacific Ocean flows into a large wetland area; birds gathered to feed on a school of fish and included numerous cormorants and snowy egrets, a Great Egret, a Great Blue Heron and numerous gulls; winds 3-4 mph, temperature 64 degrees Fahrenheit, humidity 68%; high level of automobile noise from nearby highway one; elevation sea level; local time approximately 4:10 PM
Global Positioning System Coordinates
33.69555 / -118.04655
Source file recording equipment
Telinga Stereo DAT Pro 6 parabolic microphone to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 48 kHz/24 bit sampling rate
