Not particularly good quality: rather distant subject with quite a bit of wind noise, crows, geese, and motor cars. I'm not sure if this is usable by anybody (hmm... maybe as background FX at a very low level), but as I didn't see any other loon recordings here yet I'm posting it till I get a better sample... There are four loon calls: the hoot, wail, tremolo and yodel. I'm not exactly sure which these are - perhaps someone can set me straight! :-)This is .ogg because I'm on a very poor dialup connection. If I get anything better I'll send it as a wav.
Type
Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
Duration
2:47.991
File size
2.6 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bitrate
128 kbps
Channels
Stereo
Comments
18 years, 2 months ago
As you say, the quality is not great. The actual sound of wind is fine - it adds to the feel - but like the rest of us you have suffered from wind noise and handling noise. But this a really nice upload anyway because the bird sounds are so strange and evocative. I think what you call a loon in the States is what we call a Red Throated Diver in the uk. Here they are uncommon and rarely heard but this took me straight back to a great holiday in Sutherland - a wild part of Scotland where there were a lot of "loons" breeding. Thanks for the upload - please let us have more if you can overcome the noise problem.
