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Quarentine Night birds

Santa Maria de Olivais, Lisboa, Grande Lisboa, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal

A field recording by Carlos Santos made in Olivais, Portugal on 31 March 2020, in the night. Soundscape: wind, birdsong & dawn chorus and night soundscapes.

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Quarentine Night birds
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Recordist's notes

During quarentine (March 2020), the night birds are more audible (active), because of the lack of human produced sound. Recorded from my window with a SD mixpre6 and a pair of Primo 172 Clippy's in AB stereo configuration (3 meters apart).

Written by Carlos Santos on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Olivais is a town of about 33,788 people in Lisbon, Portugal. OttoAnna lists 21 field recordings from here.

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