In Europe, Australia and the US most species of grasshoppers have a published song description. And usually sound recordings exist. For most species of grasshoppers however, the song is unknown. Even in Europe disoveries are possible. An example of a song recently discovered is that of Rambur's Pygmy Wart-biter enemic to Spain. Maybe the song has been overheard, as its main frequencies are between 20 and 80kHz. A bat detector or a recording device that slows the sound is necessary to hear this species! The song has a characteristic pattern of 1-2 buzzing elements per second, which clearly distinguishes the species from related species. Let's hope many more unknown grasshopper songs will find a way to XC!
Unknown grasshopper sounds
Rambur's Pygmy Wart-biter in Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas © Roy Kleukers
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.... the incredible Marc Anderson has dug in his archives and adds a bunch of new mammals for XC from Australia. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing Marc!
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Jayrson Araujo de Oliveira has surpassed 10,000 recordings on XC, practically all from Brazil. An amazing contribution, Jayrson, parabens!
Congratulations Jayrson and thanks for all your work to make us smarter. Sue
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Cool recordings from Uganda coming in these days, courtesy of Jonathan Onongo. Thanks for sharing Jonathan!
Thanks for noticing. Special appreciation to the eBird team for providing me with training in sound recording and editing. eBird and Idea Wild also provided the audio recording equipment that has made the recordings possible. Look forward to continuing to contribute more sound recordings.
Great to hear all of that Jonathan. Keep recording!
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Longer Recordings
With the move to the servers of Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, the file size limits have been relaxed again. Recordings can be up to 128MB in size. And of course you can always try to convince us of hosting even larger ones.
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