A couple of weeks ago I heard a whippoorwill, who was apparently on the way to somewhere else. I should soon hear the chuck-will’s-widow who lives here part of the year. I also know places where I sometimes hear tree frogs; one is by a road and a river, so I’d need a directional mike to avoid pickin…

Yes, I was wondering the same thing for better storage and battery power efficacy when iNatting, especially since Merlin eBird takes up a lot of battery power

Okay, so there’s the Zoom H1n, and there’s the Røde directional mike. The only thing I know about either brand is that I’ve seen Røde in YouTube videos. Does the Zoom need a directional mike? Zoom is in England, and I’m in the USA. With Trump setting tariffs haywire, ordering anything from overseas…

You do not need a dedicated recorder and if yes, you do not need an expensive one or if you want a high-quality expensive one, you do not really need a specific one. The quality is mostly limited by the microphone, not by the recorder. There is some influence of the A/D transformers, but for this ap…

There is not just Merlin, there is also BirdNET that uses an online AI model from the same Cornell Uni group as Merlin does offline on your phone. I guess that Merlin consumes more power as it continuously tries to identify what you are recording. If you use your phone as a recorder, it should consu…

No, I know nothing about microphones. I just pointed you to a thread.

Can you suggest a store, or a type of store, where I can look for a recorder and mike?

[image] phma: Does the Zoom need a directional mike? the Zoom H1n has two microphones built in arranged in XY, which i believe gives it a cardioid recording pattern. in other words, if using the built-in microphones, you do get directional stereo recording. i’m not sure which Rode mic you’re…

I got a Sunlan recorder, which is even smaller than my camera, and just uploaded my first two sound observations (a frog or something phonobombed the chuck-will’s-widow). No mike yet.

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