Re: binaural fun

["Po-Jen Chiang" <>]

> The Hawk Cuckoo is the most heard of the 6 species of Cuckoos there and
> it sounds very similar to this, there is also the Common Cuckoo found in
> great numbers in Chengdu, I will pull my recordings out and see (if I
> can find the buggers!!) it was about 10 years ago when I was there.
>

It is a common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. Hawk cuckoo sounds are series with
pitch rising higher and higher, like crying. Hawk Cuckoo is the bird in
Chinese poem that "cries" until vomitting blood and die thereafter, implying
people very loyal.

Po-Jen



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