Thanks for the info and sound. But tell me do you have an assistant?
When you hold a bird in each hand by the mic who pushes the record
button?
Rich
--- In Lang Elliott <>
wrote:
> OK, I couldn't resist. Here is my stereo example of a Virginia Rail
mate
> duet:
>
> http://www.naturesound.com/virgrail.mp3
>
> Not only do various rails duet in this fashion, but the Pied-billed
Grebe
> does it too, and I've heard and recorded Great-crested Flycatchers
> performing similar call duets.
>
> Lang
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:27:00 2005
Message: 18
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:14:04 -0500
From: Lang Elliott <>
Subject: Re: King Rail vs. Virginia Rail
I have ten assistants. They herded the rails toward me and we used a mesh
fence to concentrate them at an apex. They fought each other fiercely and
most died, except for one pair, which gave a victory duet and then promptly
expired.
I go to great lengths to get excellent recordings.
> Thanks for the info and sound. But tell me do you have an assistant?
> When you hold a bird in each hand by the mic who pushes the record
> button?
>
> Rich
>
> --- In Lang Elliott <>
> wrote:
>> OK, I couldn't resist. Here is my stereo example of a Virginia Rail
> mate
>> duet:
>>
>> http://www.naturesound.com/virgrail.mp3
>>
>> Not only do various rails duet in this fashion, but the Pied-billed
> Grebe
>> does it too, and I've heard and recorded Great-crested Flycatchers
>> performing similar call duets.
>>
>> Lang
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:27:00 2005
Message: 19
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:15:51 -0500
From: Lang Elliott <>
Subject: Re: King Rail vs. Virginia Rail
Actually, my explanation doesn't hold water. If both birds were at the apex
of the fence, there wouldn't be any separation in the stereo recording. I'll
have to think up some other story.
By the way, I got perhaps a dozen or more duet outbursts in this one spot.
Most of the time the birds were right next to one another. But in two cases
I got the good separation. That's when I realized there were two birds
involved. I couldn't see them, and thought at first that I was recording one
bird.
> Thanks for the info and sound. But tell me do you have an assistant?
> When you hold a bird in each hand by the mic who pushes the record
> button?
>
> Rich
>
> --- In Lang Elliott <>
> wrote:
>> OK, I couldn't resist. Here is my stereo example of a Virginia Rail
> mate
>> duet:
>>
>> http://www.naturesound.com/virgrail.mp3
>>
>> Not only do various rails duet in this fashion, but the Pied-billed
> Grebe
>> does it too, and I've heard and recorded Great-crested Flycatchers
>> performing similar call duets.
>>
>> Lang
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
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