Acoustic record and store devices I am working on a project involving analysis of bird sounds and I want to record these sounds in slightly remote locations. It is enough if the device can only record and store them (maybe in an SD card). Are there any devices available that I can readily use or what would be the best way to do this ?
There are plenty of devices that can do this. Simply Google portable recorders. They generally all have a microphone built in. Some have line level inputs, and some can also take XLR inputs and provide phantom power for condenser microphones.

If you don't need the XLR inputs, I can recommend the Zoom H1. It has a stereo microphone, can also take a line level input and is fairly cheap. I have used this to record various foley sounds including bird songs. The sounds save onto an SD card in high quality 24-bit/96 kHz WAV files for analysis on a computer later.

It's best to get a little tripod for it too to stop any handling noise.