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Dawn Chorus From Himalayan Foothills

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Calcuttan

May 18th, 2018

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Sound effects > Animals
Nagrakata, West Bengal, India
Nature Sounds

Soundscape captured at 4.30 am from Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary on International Dawn Chorus Day (first Sunday of May). It's a dense forest in the eastern Himalayan foothills. Elephants, Gaurs, rhinos and leopards abound in these forests. There are hundreds of different species of birds here as well. Recorded with Marantz PMD661 MK II and Sennheiser K6/ME66 combo fitted inside a Rode blimp. The species that can be heard are White-rumped Shama, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Ashy Drongo, Red-vented Bulbuls, Pin-striped Titbabblers among others. If you can identify any other species I shall be delighted. Please feel free to ask for the full recording, if you need.

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Terai

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:38.104

File size

39.9 MB

Sample rate

96000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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Calcuttan

6 years, 1 month ago

ImaginaryLife thanks for your appreciation. Please feel free to use whatever you want to. It will be nice if you send me a link for me to listen. Listened to your first podcast. Very nice.I have more nature recordings of this nature on xeno-canto.

ImaginaryLife

6 years, 1 month ago

Beautiful! I would love to able to use this for a podcast! I have sent you a PM.

M
macppr

6 years, 4 months ago

Not to worry, it's fine as it is.

Calcuttan

6 years, 4 months ago

Thanks for your appreciation macppr. Unfortunately I have had a computer crash after this. Though several files were recovered I doubt if this particular recording has been recovered. Will look for it and then alert you. But I am not sure how to transmit it. That would be a mighty large file.

M
macppr

6 years, 4 months ago

Really interesting to compare this with the Australian dawn chorus - a lot more going on. Would love to hear the whole recording, how long is it?

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