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Tagged: field recordings

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Growling Grass Frogs in Melbourne Industry - Brendan John Casey
A series of highlight excerpts from the Brendan John Casey, Bioacoustic Monitoring, Growling Grass Frogs collection, selected by NFSA Sound curator, Tessa Elieff. "The Growling Grass Frog choruses...
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Bird and Animal Calls of Australia: Male koala grunting
The voice-over announces 'the male koala grunting’. We hear a series of deep-voiced grunts similar to the sounds of a large pig. Summary by Maryanne Doyle Image from: Koalas - The Bare Facts (1990),...
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Pleiades (East Australian Humpback whales) - Mark Franklin
In the 1960s when field recordist Mark Franklin was born, East Australian Humpback whales were near extinction. Their number have since recovered. Using a hydrophone, Mark has been documenting the...
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Superb lyrebird imitating workers
In this recording of Chook the lyrebird, made for ABC TV in 1987, the bird's call resembles the sound of workers. Lyrebirds are great mimics, copying many sounds in their environment. While in nature...
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Tribal Music of Australia – AP Elkin
Djedbang-ari is a three-part Indigenous manikay (song) and dance from the Yirrkala district in the far north-east of Arnhem Land. Summary by Sophie Sambono
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Superb lyrebird imitates an electronic game
Lyrebirds are great mimics, copying many sounds in their environment. In nature this consists predominantly of other birds but, in rare circumstances, their calls reflect the human impact on their...
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Aboriginal Recordings – John Hutchinson
These rare examples of Aboriginal songs were recorded by John Hutchinson, one of Australia's foremost field recordists, in 1959 along the north-west coastline of Australia. The recordings are an...
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Recording of a Superb Lyrebird at Healesville, Victoria
Lyrebirds are great mimics, copying many sounds in their environment. In nature this consists predominantly of other birds. In rare circumstances their calls have the potential to reflect the human...
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Dingo by Vicki Powys
When recorded in 1990 this was the only known recording made of a solo dingo howling in the wild. Powys recorded the dingo sounds early in the morning at Palm Valley in Finke Gorge National Park,...
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