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Most Beautiful Sounding Birdsong in the World :) (1 Viewer)

From those I've heard in the field, I'm always amazed by Icterine and Marsh Warbler, incredible what they can produce
 
MJB said:
I don't have any sound clips, but hundreds of singing Calandra Larks in early June in the morning in south-central Turkey on a sunny windless day just stopped me in my tracks...
MJB
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Same here! My experiences with Calandra Larks singing in masse were in Portugal. Its quite important you say in high spring and a windless day. If one is lucky enough to get in the right position so that their song can fill one's eardrums so to speak, its overwhelming. I was so absorbed by this both frenzied but inventive and incredibly varied sound, I just thought; right that's it, I need no more from life and lay down with my ears to the sky happy as a boy on a swing. Unfortunately experiences of this nature are not common for me! Much as I adore Skylark, Calandra is simply an amazing song ;)

Another song that "really got me" was Red-rumped Wheatear in south Morocco - I had camped out on a roll mat with no tent and was woken by their pre-dawn song. Birds all around me singing by first proper light and at close range. Highly recommend song to hear well!

The song I most want to hear, of European birds I do not know is River Warbler.
 
Nutcracker said:
Sewing machine!


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But hearing one in real life at close range is going to do it for me, I just know - but then I do have a soft spot for bizarre, machine-like overtones - maybe because I was brought up in Manchester in the late 70s early 80s ;) I go bendy enough watching Savi's and Grasshoppers singing - so seeing a River with its mouth open producing that sound would finish me off I reckon.
 
Chosun Juan said:
I'd love to hear a Lyrebird that had been exposed to all the songsters on this thread, and see what sort of wonderful pitch perfect composition it would come up with !

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...3679&id=105735272820062&anchor_composer=false Chosun :gh:
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In 2011 in NSW, we heard one imitate a Trimphone, something that hasn't existed for decades, implying that the sound had been passed through many generations of Superb Lyrebirds, each generation mimicking the earlier one flawlessly...:eek!:
MJB
 
MJB said:
In 2011 in NSW, we heard one imitate a Trimphone, something that hasn't existed for decades, implying that the sound had been passed through many generations of Superb Lyrebirds, each generation mimicking the earlier one flawlessly...:eek!:
MJB
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Must admit, not quite my era, and I had to look that one up ! :-O
Absolutely amazing creatures ! .:t:






Chosun :gh:
 
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