Here it is:
http://soundcloud.com/klasse-1/tetrao-urogallus
I have not met many people who know about it. I had 16 mic's out,
mixed into a stereo track, so I cannot say how far away the mic was.
Klas.
At 21:43 2013-05-14, you wrote:
>The Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) has a really extraordinary song,
>best described as sounding like someone uncorking a bottle of
>sparkling wine, filling a glass, then hearing the bubbles fizz.
>Truly beautiful, if you are a female Capercaillie.
>Anyway, the terminal fizz part is accompanied by a strange infrasonic burr=
.
>All this was described years ago by Scottish scientists in a paper
>in the Ibis journal.
>
>Richard Ranft
>The British Library
>London
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "mipartitus" <>
>Sender:
>Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:58:40
>To: <>
>Reply-To:
>Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: The lowest frequency sound know
>from any bird.......
>
>Hi Marc,
>
>I measure a fundamental of, on average, around 40 Hz in your
>Southern Cassowary's call. Given that the fundamental is the
>strongest harmonic in this call, except at the end where it goes
>down to 20-25 Hz, that is indeed *very* low for a vocalization.
>Near-infrasound.
>
>I hadn't heard of such low vocalizations in birds, but it turns out
>it has been described already:
>
>Title: Low-frequency vocalizations by cassowaries (Casuarius spp.)
>Author(s): Mack, AL; Jones, J
>Source: AUK Volume: 120 Issue: 4 Pages: 1062-1068 DOI:
>10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[1062:LVBCCS]2.0.CO;2 Published: OCT 2003
>
>If you are interested and don't have access to Auk, I can send the pdf to =
you.
>
>If there are people that know of avian vocalizations below 40 Hz,
>I'd also be very interested in hearing about it.
>
>Best, Gabriel
>
>--- In "wildambience" <> wrote:
> >
> > 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 chance!
> >
> > https://soundcloud.com/wildambience/southern-cassowary-casuarius
> >
> > Hearing the call close up is incredible - sounds more like an
> large mammal than a bird!
> >
> > Marc Anderson
> > http://wildambience.com
> >
>
>
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