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Sarasota Bay Snapping Shrimp & Toadfish
2:00
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Recordist's notes
Hydrophone recording in Sarasota Bay. A very helpful professor of marine biology/acoustic ecology at New College of Florida identified the pervasive snaps as coming from snapping shrimp and the repeated sounds at 1 sec, 41 secs, 56 secs, 1:11 and 1:17 as being produced by male toadfish to attract females for spawning and to defend their territory.
About the place
Bayshore Gardens is a town of about 16,323 people in Florida, United States. OttoAnna lists 16 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Hydrophones. Underwater microphones used for whales, fish, ice and the hidden sounds of rivers and ponds.
More by Pierrot Desperes
More underwater (hydrophone) recordings
Sources & credits
- “Sarasota Bay, Longboat Key, Florida, USA - Sarasota Bay Snapping Shrimp & Toadfish” by Pierrot Desperes – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0