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Westland Petrels land in their colony at dawn

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stormpetrel

March 3rd, 2013

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Sound effects > Natural elements and explosions
Punakaiki-Rapahoe, West Coast, New Zealand
Southern oceans soundscape

The Westland Petrel is a small pelagic bird which breeds during the austral winter in the densely forested hills of the South Island's West Coast of New Zealand.

The night has fallen over the seabird colony. The silence is only disrupted by the sound of the remote waves of the Tasman Sea, 4km away. The first petrels are coming back from their oceanic travels. Like the other Procellaridae, these petrels come back to shore only for breeding in deep burrows. The rain forest covers the colony and the petrels have no other choice than let themselves fall through the canopy to access to their burrows... Sometimes, some are trapped in the branches and die.

West Coast, New Zealand
19/07/03 18H10LO
Rode NT4 + homebrewed preamp + Aiwa DAT recorder

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bird
bush
canopy
colony
dawn
dense
field-recording
forest
Indian
nature
New
New-Zealand
NT4
ocean
Pacific
pelagic
Petrel
Procellaria
rain
rode
sea
seabirds
soundscape
Tasman
trees
West-Coast
westlandica
wildlife

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

1:27.978

File size

5.7 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Gretchen_Miller

6 years ago

That's a stunning recording. Came across it looking for a southern giant petrel. Very evocative, especially with your story. Thank you.

Z
zybil

12 years ago

thanks, It's deep and beuatiful!

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