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Japanese bush warbler, pheasant, and crows

384-6 Shinjōchō, Moriyama-shi, Shiga-ken 524-0213, Japan

A 10-minute field recording by Greg Peterson made in Yasu, Japan on 19 April 2015, in the afternoon. Soundscape: rivers, streams & waterfalls and birdsong & dawn chorus.

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Japanese bush warbler, pheasant, and crows
10:00CC BY-SA 3.0by Greg PetersonInternet Archive
10:00
Spectrogram of Japanese bush warbler, pheasant, and crows
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

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Recordist's notes

Recorded on a Sunday afternoon in a small bamboo grove along Yasugawa (river) with a Sony PCM-M10 recorder. Processed with Audacity on Fedora Linux: trimmed length to 10 minutes, applied high-pass filter (6dB/octave at 1000Hz), and normalized. MP3 generated with LAME.

Written by Greg Peterson on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Yasu is a town of about 50,695 people in Shiga, Japan. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Sony PCM-M10. A pocket recorder famous for its low self-noise and long battery life.

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