Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve-- Egrets, Gulls, Heron and Cormorants-- at spillway 110204

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Title Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve-- Egrets, Gulls, Heron and Cormorants-- at spillway 110204
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
Spatial Coverage Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve (Calif.); Huntington Beach (Calif.); Orange County (Calif.); California
Creator 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 2011-02-04
Type Sound
Format audio/mpeg
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Description Ambient recording
Note 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
ARK ark:/87278/s60c589j
Setname uu_wss
ID 1119606
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60c589j