Re: high altitude birds

["Greg Simmons" simmosonics]

Abhijit Menon-Sen has kindly placed my mp3 at the following address:

http://toroid.org/misc/bird-with-prayer-flags.mp3

Some points when listening:

1) I was actually recording the prayer flags blowing in the wind; the
bird just appeared. I am not calling this a 'bird recording'!

2) Because my microphone rig was facing the prayer flags in front of
me and the bird was hovering overhead (sometimes you can hear it drift
from right to left and back again above me), the bird was 90 degrees
off axis to the M microphone while the flags were directly on axis. So
the bird's amplitude is *very* soft compared to the flags.

Abhijit suggests it may be a Common/Tibetan Raven, corvus corax tibetanus..=
.