Crakes, rails and crane

Little Crake

Corncrake

Quail

Capercaillie, Common Crane and Black Grouse

Not much else to listen to or record this time of year when all birds are busy raising young, but the Quails are still going strong. This mono recording is from midnight today.

Sundbromark, Uppsala. June 17, 2024.
Wildtronics Parabolic dish + Mixpre 3ii

The Quail song

Early morning and a Common Crane is slowly walking in a wet mire, almost talking to itself.

Huddunge, Uppland. April 2, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272

Crane chatting

Recorded under cliffs in Alps - no wind was that night so there was almost complete silence . 
Owls and later falling rocks from cliffs which was maybe trigger by some animal walking high above microphones.
Edited with EQ 
Microphones ORTF Mkh40 Sennheiser
Recorder Zoom F6
Slovenia Alps
10192025

Autumn Night Under Slovenian Alps – Owls and Falling Rocks from Cliffs

Fruition

Fiume Bacchiglione 1244

Fiume Bacchiglione 1500

Fiume Bacchiglione 1100

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Mallorca April Frog concert at night. Recording MS

Mallorca_Frogconcert

April 2024 Albufera Mallorca: Egretta garzetta Silberreiher.
Recording MS

Albufera_Egretta garzetta_Silberreiher

April 2024 Mallorca, Lluc. Recording inside of an organ. 

20250421_Mallorca_Inside-Organ_Lluc

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.

Capercaillie, Common Crane and Black Grouse

Bo Söderström

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