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Recordist's notes
Recording of the birds into the urban woods of Belgium. The reality is that there's no real forest in Belgium, it's only trees, grass, leaves : in a nutshell, these objects scattered in an extremely urbanized landfield. Because of this pressure, pollution is considerable : the cars, the trains, but also and especially the intolerable airplanes. It's interesting to record the Belgian forest, as a sonic testimony of aggression on the natural environment. This explains why this sound is called "the woods" rather than "the forest". Birds are the European Robin, the Great Spotted Woodpecker, and the regular chip-chip-chip-chip are very young Great Spotted Woodpecker. At the back, European Green Woodpecker. Also the sometimes "teetooteedoodzzii" are Short-toed Treecreeper.
About the place
Rixensart is a town of about 21,616 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 20 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “1380 Lasne, Belgique - In the woods” by Vincent Duseigne – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0