Listen
Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.
Recordist's notes
red-crowned crane soundscape ... telinga parabolic to minidisk ... adult cranes with youngsters ... white-tailed fish eagles coming in at no level ... talons skating the ice after dumped fish ... adults whickering on each run ... lots of background noise and automated shutters shuttering ... bird calls ... whooper swan ... raven ... over modulated in places ...
About the place
Kushiro is a city of about 167,875 people in Hokkaido, Japan. OttoAnna lists 2 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Parabolic reflectors. Dish reflectors that focus distant sounds – the classic tool for recording individual birds.
Recorded nearby
More by david m
Field Marshall Tractors
Bridlington, United Kingdom
Inside St Marys Church
Scarborough, United Kingdom
United States Minor Outlying Islands - Bonin Petrel soundscape
Air Port Access
Blakistons Fish Owl
Nakashibetsu, Japan
Motorcycle road racing 2012
Scarborough, United Kingdom
Motorcycle road racing 2017 ... newcomers
Scarborough, United Kingdom
More birdsong & dawn chorus recordings
Sources & credits
- “23 Sen-40-3 Akanchō Kamiakan, Kushiro, Hokkaido 085-0245, Japan - red-crowned crane soundscape ...” by david m – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0