Make a Sound Map

These simple instructions walk you through making a sound map whether by yourself or with a group.

Even toddlers can make a sound map. This webpage describes one parent’s experience doing a sound map project with a 23-month old.

Is a math professor’s website a weird place to find bird calls? Maybe, but this free site provides song recordings for 25 different bird groups in New York. Many of these birds live outside New York too, so this is a decent general list for the northeastern US.

Listen on this page to familiarize yourself with some of the critters you might hear, especially if you do your sound map at night.