Birdsound Collection: How Many You Should Have In Your Database???

Yesterday met with a young Mr. Chris of Selangor at The Mall near Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

He wanted to have the Duress birdcall sound. We sat down for about half an hour and get to know each other and talked about how swiftlet farming have change our life style.

One of the interesting question posted by Chris was "How Many Birdcall Sound Should One Have In Possession To Operate BHs?".

A very interesting question and I am sure many of my blog reader would like to know the best answer.

I have met many BH owners and each of them have different attitudes about keeping how many birdcall sound with them.

In Telok Gong, Klang, Mr. W have at least 60 sounds in his computer while in Ipoh I met Mr.T with 100 sounds.

Recently while in Sungai Bakap I met a BH owner who has a stack of swiftlet sound which he collected and dubbed for almost 5 years. He has more then 200 of them. He also has specialized software which he can splice, cut and paste those sounds to make them more attractive.

So how many you should have?

I strongly believed that you must have more then one set (External and Internal). In the first place you should be rotating the sound every 4 months. The minimum number your must have is at least 3 sets.

What if those sound is no longer attractive and there were no more birds responding to the music? If you do not make any effort to change them, you BH are doomed. You have to quickly find a solution.

My advice to all BH owners, you should consider having a good collection of at least 20 sounds (say 15 external and 5 internal). If you can collect as many as you can and expand your collection to as many as possible. For me the more you have in your collection the better chance for you to stumble onto a good and attractive sound.

Some people are willing to spend thousands for a good sound. I was in Klang the other day and this shop that I visited displayed CDs of birdsound and the price tag was RM5,000. Oh my god !!! I also have come across some people who claimed that they spend more then RM15,000 for one birdcall sound? To a BH owner who spend millions on their BHs RM 15,000 is a very small fraction as compared to the total capital injected in building the BHs.

I met Pak Hen at Pulau Kapas and he claimed that he will develop at least one Birdcall sound a month. The only thing is that his sound are priceless and he will not sell to any one. That is his trump card, according to him. He will only share or install these sounds if your engage him as the Consultant to rehabilitate your BH. Latest that he introduced in all his new sound are insects sound.

Once you have those sounds in your database, you should make some effort to try them out within your BH territory. You can test their effectiveness by playing them using the Birdcall Gadget which I promoted in my blog. Do not try them using your BH sound system. If you do that you are actually disturbing the birds both internal and external. So avoid using your BH system and use a portable unit.

Once you test them and found that they do bring those birds on to the sound tweeter you should then try to seek which of the lot are the best in bringing the birds. You need to find at least 3 sounds, the best among those hundreds, and catalog when and where the test was conducted.

These 3 sounds shall be used on your BH that is located close to the test area.

In this way you will have a good chance of making sure that you will have a continuous stream of birds visiting your roof top all the time.

If you have another BH somewhere else, you should use the same technique in selecting the best sound for that BH in that area.

Hope the tips given are well used and useful for those newbie.

Have a good day and a good week....................