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Subject: Re: The lowest frequency sound know from any bird.......
From: "chrishails50" chrishails50
Date: Tue May 14, 2013 10:57 pm ((PDT))
Brilliant Klas, and thanks both as I never knew about this. I must go back and 
listen to some of my own material, maybe I dismissed it as wind noise !

16 mics - that's quite an effort ! I was hoping to get out in a display area 
with fixed mics overnight this winter but was defeated by snow which was too 
deep. Next year maybe.

Chris 

--- In  Klas Strandberg <> wrote:
>
> 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-----
> 







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