Name: Thrush nightingale song ( Luscinia luscinia ) by EricWild
Duration: 2 min 45 s
Description: The song of the thrush nightingale ( Luscinia luscinia ). Recorded in the evening in Riga, in Latvia, 2024.

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Geophones and ambisonic microphone array converted to binaural headphones

Spiders are affected by vibration in various ways. They use their orb webs to transmit and detect vibrational information, allowing them to sense potential prey or mates, as well as abiotic sources like wind.

Under stones and human detritus, in subterranean realms, lives troglodytic species of spider Nothophantes horridus. Nocturnally roaming in narrow fissures in this rich limestone habitat sporadically emerging. A UK biodiversity Action plan priority species, extremely rare and only exist in these two places in the world (both in Plymouth UK).
This rare arachnid  last home was a quarry, filled in with concrete and destroyed to make space for luxury unaffordable housing.

Planning permission was refused for this site in 2015, however the property developer is trying again with greenwashing plans for eco pods and activity park treating the natural world as a spectacle to be consumed and extracted from. Will this refuge for extremely rare spiders exist for much longer? Or will human greed and commerce make this spider extinct?

Failure to protect this site would be catastrophic.

A more than human space between the world that people and arachnids inhabit.

Vibrational Arachnid soundscape Radford Quarry Plymouth UK, 2024

The song of the thrush nightingale ( Luscinia luscinia ). Recorded in the evening in Riga, in Latvia, 2024.

Thrush nightingale song ( Luscinia luscinia )

I am an animal and nature sound, and other sounds recording enthusiast from Baltic States. There is a variety of amazing sounds on the planet. No two sounds are the same, there are only sounds mixed with other sounds. 

-Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you-

Thrush nightingale song ( Luscinia luscinia )

EricWild

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