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Subject: Kookaburra
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:10 am ((PDT))
That looks like something interesting to watch.  Nice website, but
some of the videos wouldn't play fully for me.  Thanks for sending
the link.  Loved seeing all those parrots together.

---------------------------------------------
Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  Paul Jacobson <> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Suzanne
> > Suzanne Williams Photography
> > http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
> > Florida, USA
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In  "John Tudor" <john@>
> > 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
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via
Bernie
> > Krause
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>





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