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Dawn Chorus, Lake Merritt Bird Sanctuary

Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States

A 37-minute field recording by joelwanek made in Oakland, United States on 1 May 2021, in the dawn. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus.

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Dawn Chorus, Lake Merritt Bird Sanctuary
36:43
Spectrogram of Dawn Chorus, Lake Merritt Bird Sanctuary
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Recordist's notes

The Bird Sanctuary at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California from Dawn Chorus starting at 5:34am to roughly 6:20am. The recording was made with a pair of Lom Usi Pro microphones in X/Y configuration mixed with Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 in-ear binaural mics.

Written by joelwanek on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Oakland is a city of about 419,267 people in California, United States. OttoAnna lists 34 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: LOM microphones (Uši) and Binaural microphones. Small omni microphones from the Slovak LOM collective, popular for quiet nature recording.

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