I've always wondered what this bird was that I've heard since
childhood growing up in Sydney. I've always imagined it to be an owl.
To place you in the scene, this is a recording from my window in the
suburbs of Melbourne. I recorded it on an overcast day, after a rainy
night. It includes exciting sounds of the suburbs like the ubiquitous
Indian myna, a cat's bell jingling, the neighbour driving off to work,
a plane flying overhead, and powertools (no, sorry, it's not an lyrebird).
It's recorded with an unmodified Zoom H4 with the built-in mics. The
unit is connected to mains power. It's fairly noisy. I was going to
de-noise it in Audacity 1.3.3 but the signal-to-noise here is a bit
too high for it to work well without losing the body of the sound
(Audacity 1.3.3-beta's new noise-removal has been very effective for
removing noise from sound effects, speech and the like).
Anyway. What's this bird? Any other comments/feedback also appreciated.
http://pengo.org/audio/clip01.mp3
(length: 2:04 minutes. 3.33 MB)
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