>> the other two recordings are quite lovely! what is that peculiar bird at=
the
>> beginning of the first recording (right channel) that sounds like a modu=
lated
>> low-pitched pan pipe with rising frequency, until the pitch falls abrupt=
ly at
>> the end of its call??
>
> It's some species of snipe _Gallinago sp_
> I won't be more precise for now, since I've never heard these species
> personally, and don't have time to search ATM.
It's a Common Snipe _Gallinago gallinago_.
E.g., listen to: http://www.xeno-canto.org/57908
--Serge
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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