Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bruyninckx, Joeri ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds' singing behavior; Electrical recording devices; Ornithologists; Recording; Sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923487761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195388947.013.0035     Document Type: Chapter

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