Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Trevor Hebert (Stanford University), Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve
The BR is a highly diverse and culturally rich complex of urban, multi-use and wild environments with coastal forests, chaparral, scrub, prairies, rare serpentine grasslands, and islands. Birdcast, a live audio stream by Trevor Hebert, shares a changing soundscape of waterfowl, amphibians, songbirds, large mammals and overflying aircraft. Launched in 2013, Birdcast soon became popular with online communities, letting ornithologists and lay experts supplement conventional bird surveys, listen out of hours and hone ID skills, and providing contact with the site for older and less able birders. New streams, archiving and additional remote sensing equipment would reach new ecosystems above and below water, opening collaborations with other stakeholders (Golden Gate Natural Recreation Area, Bodega Marine Reserve).
Golden Gate BR unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=USA+42
jrbp.stanford.edu/about/facilities/live-audio-stream
bml.ucdavis.edu/bmr/about.html
Listen at locus.creacast.com:9001/jasper_ridge_birdcast.mp3