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I would be interested in recording and posting some calls but I need some help in determining the required equipment. Could someone please give some advice ?

I'm still meaning to try this myself when I can scrounge some equipment together. You can probably get by with a microphone and a tape recorder (or some sort of digital audio recorder). Once you capture a sound you can play it back into your PC's sound card and record with some tool like Audacity, and save as MP3.

Here is a link I found to more detail about wildlife recording.

Here is an intersting parabolic microphone and spotting scope combo, but you'd have to plug in some sort of external recording device to keep your sounds.

Nancy Collins mentioned having some video with bird calls. That gave me the idea of stripping the audio out of a video. I haven't found a good tool for this yet...I ended up using Audacity to "listen" to her AVI file playing in Windows Media Player and record it. Then I trimmed out the call and sent it back to her. She posted it here: (Audio: Great-tailed Grackle call).

When I get some free time I will try the same with my video camera. This might work well enough for me in the short term that I can put off any audio equipment.