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Recordist's notes
Ultrasonic location/hunting sounds made by 3 bats in a small car park, Sakaori, Kofu Japan. These are most likely Japanese House Bats (Abura-ko-mori - Pipistrellus abramus) which often live in urban areas. Recorded on a Zoom H5 using a simple bat detector built from a kit. The bat detector pitches down the ultrasonic frequencies to make them audible. There is no line output so I just positioned the H5 near the speaker.
About the place
Kofu is a city of about 189,591 people in Yamanashi, Japan.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H5. A modular handheld recorder with interchangeable microphone capsules.
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Sources & credits
- “Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan - Bats Sakaori” by Mike Blow – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0