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Being birding since I am 10 years old. Professionally (at Sovon, Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology)

Most recent recorders/microphones:

ZOOM H5 fieldrecorder Sennheiser MKH416 shotgun mic Rode NT-4 condensator mic Sound devices Mixpre-3M

When explicitlyrecording birds most of the times I choose to bring my Sound devices MIXPRE-3M and my Sennheiser MKH416PU48 shotgun mic. This combination isn't the cheapest (not the most expensive either..) and I'm happy with the quality.

Sometimes I let the recorder record the whole time while I continue do make my bird inventories.. An other favorite way of recording birds is recording nocturnal migarion.

Not many people record 6-11 hours non-stop to hear what's flying over their house. I do. Very interesting!! Waterrails, Eurasian bitterns, Little bitterns, Richards Pipit, Terek Sandpiper, Dotterel, Quails, Owls and small passerines like Ortolan Buntings have already been recorded more than once in the last years.

Recording Sets

• alarmcalls
• Nocturnal Flight Calls of Coots and sound-a-likes
• Confusing Flight calls, several species
• Nocturnal Flight calls of Song Thrushes
• Nocturnal Flight calls of Redwings
• Nocturnal Flight Calls of Great Bittern and confusing large Gulls
• Nocturnal Flight Calls of confusing Quails and Moorhens
• Nocturnal Flight Calls of European Robins
• Nocturnal Flight calls of Blackbirds
• Sierra Leone