Hi.
My apologies to everyone who has trouble playing my audio files.
Could one of you please try the following URL? (Don't "Save as", it's
not a link directly to an mp3 file this time.)
http://toroid.org/misc/ckbs-mp3
It's the same recording from CKBS, but wrapped inside a flash audio
player. It should play for 1m34s without any tweaking. If it works,
I'll use this method to publish all my recordings in future.
Actually, you've probably heard the koels enough times, so here's
another recording to try:
http://toroid.org/misc/larks-mp3
I recorded this in late October at Nagrota Surian, on the shores of the
huge Pong Dam reservoir in lowland Himachal Pradesh, NW India. The most
audible singers are Sand Larks (Calandrella raytal), but there are other
species, including both Eurasian (Alauda arvensis) and Oriental Skylarks
(A. gulgula), Crested Larks (Galerida cristata), and some shorebirds.
There were hundreds of Kentish and Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius
alexandrinus and C. dubius respectively), apart from Greenshanks,
Redshanks (Tringa nebularia and T. totanus), etc.
Larks are the birds that got me interested in sound recording in the
first place, so it was a real treat to hear hundreds of them singing.
BTW: this is the first time I've spliced two recordings together. I did
my best to make the "seam" not obvious, but the background noise (wind)
changed between the two places, so listeners on this list can probably
tell where the two tracks are joined. Is it obtrusive, or did it work
out nicely?
Thanks in advance for your patience and feedback.
-- Abhijit
P.S. I got a pair of recordings demonstrating differences in
vocalisation between Pale (Riparia diluta) and Plain/Grey-throated
Martins (R. chinensis) in NW India, but they're completely ruined by
traffic noise, since the sand-banks were right next to a busy highway.
I wish I could do something about them. I haven't found any references
to martin vocalisations at all.
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