There is a fantastic new doco called Australia: Land of Parrots which
screened recently here in Aus. I believe a US broadcaster has
purchased it so you should keep an eye out for it. Lots of really
stunning footage shot in HD. The opening sequence has some nice shots
of Major Mitchell's, Gang Gang and Palm cockatoo's and a huge flock
of what looks like Major Mitchell's cockatoo's wheeling over the desert.
ABC TV has a interactive site for the program which and you can play
a low res version of the program - not sure if it's accessible to the
wider world web however.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/parrots/
cheers
Paul
On Jun 18, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Suzanne Williams wrote:
> Very interesting recording, John. Not a bird I hear a lot of
> recordings of. And I, unfortunately, have a hard time imagining
> cockatoos in the wild. It must be a great sight.
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> Suzanne
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> --- In "John Tudor" <>
> wrote:
>>
>> This recording was made at 5:30 am on Tuesday the 6th May 2008 on
> the
>> River Murray above Blanchetown.
>>
>> For those interested, there is a Google Earth KML file of the
> location
>> here too.
>>
>> I'd only just recieved my new Sound Devices 702 CF recorder the week
>> before and only two days before had recieved and rigged a Rode NT1-A
>> and a Legacy Axis-70 ribbon. I set these as a vertical M/S stereo in
>> some PVC piping. Kerry made up the wind fur for me the night before
> we
>> left on the houseboat trip on the 5th. The other people with us on
>> the holdiay thought we'd brought a pet Racoon along for the week.
>>
>> The recording is my first made with any intent.
>>
>> The squacking background is the giant flock of Sulphar Crested
>> Cockatoo about 1 km away. The entrie recording was about 10 minutes
>> long but after about 4 minutes becomes un-usable due to the
> cockatoos.
>> So this edited recording is only about 3:30 long.
>>
>> The main interest here is the 'chatter' that goes on in the first
> one
>> and half to two minutes between a couple of Kookaburras.
>>
>> There is a fade out/in towards the end where I chopped out a large
>> group of cockatoos flying overhead. Finally in the closing seconds,
>> there is my favorite melodic Australian bird, the Magpie. It's only
>> there for a couple of seconds but is still a nice sound.
>>
>> The only post work done is cutting out some lower frequencies that
>> relate to a camping ground across the river and a road somewhere
>> nearby. I also gain matched the channels.
>>
>> Regards
>> John
>>
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/John%27s%
> 20Files/Kookaburra\
>> -River%20Murray.mp3
>>
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