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Recordist's notes
Recording content: Distinctive, resonant flamingo vocalizations—including goose-like double honks (ka-hank / ka-rrak), deep trumpeting, low grumbling, and continuous soft kucking calls from the flock. These are layered with gentle water ripples and faint city background noise, creating a vivid contrast between wild, communal sound and urban calm. Situation: A peaceful daytime scene in the park; the flamingos’ collective, rhythmic calls create a lively, immersive, and surprisingly serene atmosphere. Technique: On-site field recording focusing on capturing the full spatial and tonal range of the flamingos’ unique calls, preserving their communal, resonant character within the urban green space.
About the place
Kowloon is a city of about 2,232,339 people, Hong Kong. OttoAnna lists 21 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “油尖旺區, 香港, 中国 - recording of flamingo calls” by 231507002 – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0