Re: Butcherbird Mimicry

["Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999]

> Here's a link to a recording I made this afternoon of a Grey Butcherbird in 
> my backyard using vocal mimicry.
> It was a spur-of-the-moment recording so I used what I could set-up quickly 
> (before he flew away)- a Sennheiser MKH 416 and a Sound Devices 702- it was 
> quite windy so I just lay on the ground in front of the camera and got as 
> close as possible- he (or she, but I think he) sat in the fence for about ten 
> minutes and kindly ignored me.
> 
> http://youtu.be/4RgA8CUvf5I

Nice job, Tony, but the use of downward expansion or some noise reduction 
process is evident in the surging up of the noise when the bird vocalizes. What 
did you do?

-Dan