The Borror Lab has four audio CD productions available for purchase. To order, send a check for the total amount (each CD costs $10), plus $5 per order for shipping, to the address below. Make the check out to The Ohio State University, and include the shipping address and the title(s) requested. Select the titles to the right for more information.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212-1192 USAPhone: (614) 292-2176
E-mail: borrorlab@osu.edu
This audio CD is a guide to the songs and calls of 163 species of Ohio's most common birds. To order, send a check made out to The Ohio State University for $10 per CD, plus $5 per order for shipping, to the address above.
Specify which of the two versions you are requesting—the bird recordings are the same on both:
- Short version: Narration includes species names only (total playing time 44:05)
- Extended version: Narration also includes brief information on
where and when each species is found in Ohio (total playing time 63:54)
Track Listing
Short .mp3 samples (2-4 seconds) are available of four of the highlighted tracks below:
- Pied-billed grebe
- American bittern
- Great blue heron, Great egret
- Green heron
- Tundra swan, Canada goose
- Wood duck,,American wigeon
- American black duck, Mallard
- Blue-winged teal, Northern shoveler
- Green-winged teal
- Osprey, Bald eagle
- Cooper’s hawk
- Red-shouldered hawk, Broad-winged hawk, Red-tailed hawk
- American kestrel
- Ring-necked pheasant
- Ruffed grouse
- Wild turkey, Northern bobwhite
- Virginia rail, Sora
- American coot
- Killdeer
- Greater yellowlegs, Lesser yellowlegs, Solitary sandpiper
- Least sandpiper, Spotted sandpiper
- Pectoral sandpiper, Dunlin
- Wilson’s snipe, American woodcock
- Bonaparte’s gull, Ring-billed gull
- Herring gull, Great black-backed gull
- Forster’s tern
- Rock pigeon, Mourning dove
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Eastern screech-owl
- Great horned owl
- Barred owl
- Common nighthawk, Whip-poor-will
- Chimney swift, Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Belted kingfisher
- Red-headed woodpecker
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Downy woodpecker, Hairy woodpecker
- Northern flicker, Pileated woodpecker
- Eastern wood-pewee
- Eastern phoebe
- Acadian flycatcher, Willow flycatcher
- Great-crested flycatcher
- Eastern kingbird
- White-eyed vireo
- Yellow-throated vireo, Blue-headed vireo, Red-eyed vireo
- Warbling vireo
- Blue jay
- American crow
- Horned lark
- Purple martin
- Tree swallow, N. rough-winged swallow
- Bank swallow, Cliff swallow
- Barn swallow
- Black-capped chickadee, Carolina chickadee, Tufted titmouse
- White-breasted nuthatch, Red-breasted nuthatch
- Brown creeper
- Carolina wren, House wren
- Golden-crowned kinglet, Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Blue-gray gnatcatcher
- Eastern bluebird
- Veery, Swainson’s thrush
- Hermit thrush, Wood thrush
- American robin
- Gray catbird, Brown thrasher, Northern mockingbird
- European starling
- Cedar waxwing
- Blue-winged warbler
- Tennessee warbler, Nashville warbler
- Northern parula, Cerulean warbler
- Yellow warbler, Chestnut-sided warbler
- American redstart, Black-and-white warbler
- Cape May warbler, Palm warbler, Yellow-rumped warbler
- Black-throated blue warbler, Prairie warbler
- Black-throated green warbler, Blackburnian warbler
- Yellow-throated warbler, Pine warbler
- Bay-breasted warbler, Blackpoll warbler
- Ovenbird, Northern waterthrush, Louisiana waterthrush
- Magnolia warbler, Hooded warbler
- Wilson’s warbler, Canada warbler
- Kentucky warbler, Common yellowthroat
- Yellow-breasted chat
- Summer tanager, Scarlet tanager
- Eastern towhee, American tree sparrow
- Chipping sparrow, Field sparrow
- Vesper sparrow, Song sparrow, Savannah sparrow
- Grasshopper sparrow
- Fox sparrow, Lincoln’s sparrow
- White-crowned sparrow, White-throated sparrow
- Swamp sparrow, Slate-colored junco
- Lapland longspur
- Northern cardinal, Rose-breasted grosbeak
- Indigo bunting
- Bobolink, Red-winged blackbird
- Common grackle, Eastern meadowlark
- Brown-headed cowbird
- Orchard oriole, Baltimore oriole
- House finch, American goldfinch
- House sparrow
CD version of Borror's original (1956) narrated guide to the sounds of 40 insects of the Eastern United States. Narration includes basic information about each species. To order, send a check made out to The Ohio State University for $10 per CD, plus $5 per order for shipping, to the address below.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212-1192 USAPhone: (614) 292-2176
E-mail: borrorlab@osu.edu
Track Listing
(Total playing time 24:32)
Short mp3 samples (about 4 seconds each) are available of two of the highlighted tracks below
- Introduction
- Snowy tree cricket
- Common meadow katydid
- Common true katydid
- Say's trig
- Black-legged meadow katydid
- Fall field cricket
- Handsome trig
- Long-spurred meadow katydid
- Carolina ground cricket
- Jumping bush cricket
- Woodland meadow katydid
- Allard's ground cricket
- Northern mole cricket
- Straight-lanced meadow katydid
- Tinkling ground cricket
- Protean shieldback
- Short-winged meadow katydid
- Striped ground cricket
- Sword-bearing conehead
- Slender meadow katydid
- Spotted ground cricket
- Nebraska conehead
- Sprinkled locust
- Confused ground cricket
- Slightly musical conehead
- Swamp ground cicada
- Black-horned tree cricket
- Robust conehead
- Linne's cicada
- Four-spotted tree cricket
- Greater angle-wing
- Pruinose cicada
- Broad-winged tree cricket
- Lesser angle-wing
- Robinson's cicada
- Narrow-winged tree cricket
- Oblong-winged katydid
- Lyric cicada
- Two-spotted tree cricket
- Texas bush katydid
This CD is a guide to the vocalizations of 15 frog and toad species that breed in Ohio. Basic information about each species is included in the narration for each track. To order, send a check made out to The Ohio State University for $10 per CD, plus $5 per order for shipping, to the address below.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212-1192 USAPhone: (614) 292-2176
E-mail: borrorlab@osu.edu
Track Listing
(Total playing time 17:28)
Short mp3 samples (5 seconds each) are available of three of the tracks below
- Introduction
- Eastern spadefoot
- Eastern American toad
- Fowler’s toad
- Blanchard’s cricket frog
- Cope’s gray treefrog
- Gray treefrog
- Northern spring peeper
- Western chorus frog
- Mountain chorus frog
- Bullfrog
- Green frog
- Wood frog
- Northern leopard frog
- Southern leopard frog
- Pickerel frog
- Credits
This CD contains an hour of frog and toad solos and medleys, without narration, for ambient background listening. To order, send a check made out to The Ohio State University for $10 per CD, plus $5 per order for shipping, to the address below.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
The Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212-1192 USAPhone: (614) 292-2176
E-mail: borrorlab@osu.edu
Track Listing
(Total playing time 60:55)
Short mp3 samples (15 seconds each) are available of two of the tracks below
- Wood frogs & spring peepers
- Spring peepers
- Mountain chorus frogs & spring peepers
- Pickerel frogs & spring peepers
- Western chorus frogs & northern leopard frogs
- American toads
- Gray treefrogs & spring peepers
- Fowler’s toads & gray treefrogs
- Gray treefrogs, green frogs & bullfrogs
- Green frogs & bullfrogs
- Green frogs, bullfrogs & Blanchard’s cricket frogs
- Eastern spadefoot toads