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Recordist's notes
Sitting below a tree with the recorder pointing straight up at the noisy starlings. To the lef tyou can hear the children chirping and calling (and banging on the slide) and to the right you can hear the trams go by. Early in the recording is a loud bang which the starlings react to instantly. (recorded with Zoom H4n internal mics)
About the place
Nice is a city of about 342,669 people in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. OttoAnna lists 23 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “Jardin Thiole, Liberation, Nice, France - Evening starlings and children” by RorySmith – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0