cricket MP3s

Gill Catton · #1 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 09:09 AM

Hello!
I have had a bit of a google about but am not having much luck.
I am looking for MP3 files of cricket calls and song online - specifically at the moment the Oak bush cricket. Can anyone help?

I do have a cassette of cricket and grasshopper song but its broken and I still have lots to learn

mbaldw · #2 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 09:29 AM

Hi Gill,

there are some cricket songs (although unfortuntely not the one you're looking for) on the Singing Insects of North America site. However, the Oak Bush Cricket (Meconema thalassinum) does seem to be featured on the BioLib site - here you can listen online or download the MP3.

If you need some help converting your tape recordings of the crickets to WAV/MP3/OGG, let me know.

Cheers,
Marc.

KeenTeen17 · #3 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 09:29 AM

type "oak bush cricket MP3" into google and go on the second link down.

I don't think I can say the name of it because links aren't allowed

Gill Catton · #4 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 09:37 AM

brilliant thank you!!

sandly the google result seems to apply to a photograph? Quite wierd.
anyway the biolib things works very well.

KeenTeen17 · #5 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 09:43 AM

the second link on google was to BioLib - I just wasn't sure about whether I could post the name of the site because of the forum rules.

aeshna5 · #6 (**permalink**) 19-08-2008, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Hello!
I have had a bit of a google about but am not having much luck.
I am looking for MP3 files of cricket calls and song online - specifically at the moment the Oak bush cricket. Can anyone help?

I do have a cassette of cricket and grasshopper song but its broken and I still have lots to learn

I can't help with the mp3 but the 2 oak bc spp don't stridulate like other bush-crickets, but tap their hind legs on a leaf, which I'd say you would need bat-like hearing or use a detector to locate.

Gill Catton · #7 (**permalink**) 21-08-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by aeshna5

I can't help with the mp3 but the 2 oak bc spp don't stridulate like other bush-crickets, but tap their hind legs on a leaf, which I'd say you would need bat-like hearing or use a detector to locate.

fascinating, see now I was hoping to track down an oak bush cricket for the very purpose of recording it on my bat detector so that I could learn what it's sonogram looked like so I could then use that data in the future bat surveys!! I have already done this for dark bush cricket and speckled bush and roesels and its quite successful!

CloudedYellow · #8 (**permalink**) 21-08-2008, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

fascinating, see now I was hoping to track down an oak bush cricket for the very purpose of recording it on my bat detector so that I could learn what it's sonogram looked like so I could then use that data in the future bat surveys!! I have already done this for dark bush cricket and speckled bush and roesels and its quite successful!

I have been tinkering with this recently Gill,

May I ask which software you are using to display the sonogram?

And what type of detector - I presume a heterodyne?

Richard

Gill Catton · #9 (**permalink**) 21-08-2008, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CloudedYellow

I have been tinkering with this recently Gill,

May I ask which software you are using to display the sonogram?

And what type of detector - I presume a heterodyne?

Richard

Its work's detector so its an anabat and analook.