A recording of toads on a tributary of the Colorado River just below the Boulder Dam. I believe the species is Southwestern Toad (Bufo microscaphus).
This is a test upload to the Internet Archive. toadtest.md5 contains an MD5 signature for toadstest.mp3, a recording of toads on a tributary of the colorado just below the Boulder Dam. Date of recording is 04/10/03. Recorded using SoundProfesionals in-ear binaurals on a Sharp MT-770 mindisc recorder. Running time: 4:57.
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Leslie
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May 12, 2004
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Creatures of the night.
Jesse, thanks for sharing this recording, it's lovely and was reminiscent of being at the lake on a warm August evening. I hadn't noticed that I had winamp set to mix and loop and ended up listening to the toads for quite some! I agree with the comment that an uncompressed format would be great for bioaccoustic analysis, but such recordings are not always possible.
Reviewer:
AW
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September 30, 2003
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Great recording
I gave it a 4 because you went from one lossy compression (minidisc) to another (mp3). It would be great to have these in an uncompressed format for bioacoustical analysis.
Thanks
Reviewer:
Tyler
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June 4, 2003
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Interesting
Nice to see this here. I am inerested in hearing more. perhaps one with less toad? the toad call seems rather piercing. I'd like just some ambient 'nature' sounds, if you can swing it. thanks Jesse!
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brewster
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June 3, 2003
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Toads on the Archive: this is great
Jesse-- thank you for broadening the archive to include your ambient sounds. I hope that these are used in peoples movies and sound recordings.
The idea of Open Source Media is wonderful. Thank you!
-brewster
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