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Midnight forest ambience, deadly silence
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Recordist's notes
23:13 bird observatory, Dadia Forest reserve, Greece - forest ambience near midnight, a devastating silence, almost no sign of life left here, after massive wildfires in 2023, a disturbing listening experience. See also: Dadia forest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadia_Forest https://radio.earth/ https://aporee.org/fieldradio (remote microphone: AOM5024HDR | RasPi Zero /w IQAudio Zero | 4G modem)
Context
This recording was made away from larger towns, about 41 km from the nearest city in our gazetteer.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “bird observatory, Dadia Forest reserve, Greece - midnight forest ambience, deadly silence” by radio aporee – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0