Re: The lowest frequency sound know from any bird.......

["Tony Whitehead" soundings23]

I'd suggest bittern from here in the UK as pretty low ...
http://www.xeno-canto.org/98800 ... 172hz fundamental frequency (you wont
hear this on laptop speakers)

regards

Tony


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:11 PM, wildambience <>wrote=
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> The Southern Cassowary's call is apparently the lowest frequency known
> sound from any bird (if you can think of another contender I'd be
> interested to hear about it).
>
> I recorded this sample from a captive bird in a wildlife park near Sydney=
,
> Australia - all I had on hand was my Canon DSLR and this is the resulting
> audio file, not great but I was happy that the miniature mic even picked =
it
> up. Would love to record it again with some decent gear if I get the chan=
ce!
>
> https://soundcloud.com/wildambience/southern-cassowary-casuarius
>
> Hearing the call close up is incredible - sounds more like an large mamma=
l
> than a bird!
>
> Marc Anderson
> http://wildambience.com
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