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Whooper swan soundscape ... dummy head – Dumfries

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Whooper swan soundscape ... dummy head

Dumfries and Galloway, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

A 90-minute field recording by david m made in Dumfries, United Kingdom on 31 January 2022, in the afternoon. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus.

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1:30:00CC BY 3.0by david mInternet Archive

1:30:00

Spectrogram of Whooper swan soundscape ... dummy head — 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

whooper swan soundscape ... folly pond ... dummy head with luhd in ear binaural mics to olympus ls 14 ... bird calls from ... mute swan ... canada geese ... mallard ... oystercatcher ... wigeon ... shoveler ... snipe ... teal ... jackdaw ... redshank ... barnacle geese flock fly over at 23 mins ... ish ... compare with sass recording made almost the same time in the scottish water hide some 100m+ away ... time edited extended unattended recording ...

About the place

Dumfries is a town of about 46,500 people in Scotland, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 17 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Binaural microphones. Microphones worn in the ears (or in a dummy head) that capture sound as a listener hears it – best experienced on headphones.

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