Albert Rich Brand (October 22, 1889 – March 28, 1940)[1] was an author and innovator in the recording of bird songs.
[2] Herbert J. Seligmann wrote Man and Bird Together: A Portrait of Albert R. Brand about him.
Brand collaborated with Cornell's engineering department to record bird songs, publishing two books accompanied by photographs.
[5] His first guide book about bird songs was accompanied by a phonograph record of a few dozen calls.
Sales of phonograph records of bird sounds were a key source of income for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.