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An afternoon with the Buller's Albatross

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stormpetrel

March 3rd, 2013

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Soundscapes > Urban
Stewart Island, New Zealand
Southern oceans soundscape

Sound record of Buller's Albatross in their colony during a sunny afternoon. The colony was settled on the face of a high cliff exposed to the vagary of the Indian ocean but during this quite day the sea only echoed a peaceful whisper.

The recorded birds are laying on their nest in a small bush.

Snares Island, New Zealand
05/03/2005 early afternoon

Rode NT4 + homebrewed preamp + Aiwa DAT recorder

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albatross
Buller
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field-recording
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indian
Island
mollymawk
nature
NT4
ocean
open
pelagic
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seabirds
Snares
soundscape
subantarctic
tasman
Thalassarche
traveler
wanderer
wildlife
wind

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

8:00.017

File size

37.7 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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estedel

2 years, 11 months ago

Startling work! Thank you for sharing.

Used it for an ebook soundtrack. The title ALBATROCE meaning: ‘alba’ (white) + ‘atroce’ (atrocious / excruciating) = ‘albatros’ (albatross; the wandering one). Inspired by the famous sonnet of Baudelaire, It is about human souls trapped in an industrial factory.

https://collant.antecimaise.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/07/ET-LA-PRECARITE-DU-SOL.mp3

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hanneflute

3 years, 3 months ago

love this!! thank you for sharing

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zipiiii

10 years, 6 months ago

wow

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oniromancia

12 years ago

nice plaintive sound

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