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Tawny Owls .wav

Overall rating (38 ratings)
Benboncan

December 1st, 2008

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Sound effects > Animals
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Owls

A stereo field-recording of three (0r possibly four?) Tawny owls (Strix aluco) hooting and screeching.The males hoot and the females screech.There is some wind noise in the trees. Rode NT4+Dead Kitten > FEL battery pre-amp > Zoom H2 line in

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bird
birds
field-recording
hoot
hoots
owl
owls
screech
stereo
strix-aluco
tawny-owl
xy

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:25.097

File size

14.3 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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dragonfly21

4 years, 11 months ago

Top notch!
Thanks!

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Wilhelm_Scops

7 years, 11 months ago

Thank you.

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PathOfExile

13 years, 2 months ago

Thank you very much, used this in my new horror video and worked great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqcnLYneZWI

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szuwarek

14 years, 10 months ago

nice sound, I will try to lure one tawny owl, that will be real test for this sample :)))

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TKell

15 years, 1 month ago

hey, i clicked the wrong 'rating' by accident, sorry! Great recording, thanks

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