Personal Use Sonograms

To help me learn bird songs, I have taken screen shots of sonograms off websites and printed them:

• sonogram

1. find one on web
2. alter viewing options, (if possible) such as upper limit of frequency displayed and
3. NOTE: try to use the same upper limit and time scale so you can compare sonograms quickly and maybe even time songs in the wild. Try 10,000 Hz as the max frequency shown (good for warblers) and about 1 second per centimeter (good for warblers, individual phrases of vireos, some of robin-like bird's songs)

• capturing and printing

1. print screen sonogram
2. paste to new file in photo-editing program
3. desaturate so you're not using up all your ink
4. print

• to take birding - put your 6 inch by 4 inch printed sonograms in a photo album such as the two-to-a page slide-in ones - sonogram in the top slot, index card for notes in the bottom!