This brief excerpt is from the third part ('Sunrise and Early Morning') of an unattended sunset-to-morning recording made in Mallee country in South Australia (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20230219-quiet-dawn-of-souls-sunrise-and-early-morning?in=hearingbeings/sets/2023-02-19-quiet-dawn-of-souls-mallee-country-late-summer).

I am particularly fond of this part of the third recording, for its re-presentation of the very archetypal soundscape typical of the Mallee early morning, with birds and mammals awake and feeding, as they have done, uninterruptedly, for aeons... (And without the interference of any trace of post-late-nineteenth-century-Industrial-Revolution types of anthropogenic noise. But I would have been sublimely delighted if this recording could have somehow also included the normal, natural early morning sounds of the people indigenous to this very place, just as they lived, prior to coronial colonisation.)

The recording features birds very familiar in semi-arid Mallee country: Grey Butcherbirds, Spiny-Cheeked Honeyeaters, Crested Bellbirds, White-browed Babblers, Australian Ravens, Australian Magpies, and so forth. Near the start of this excerpt (0:12), you can also hear the 'winter call' of a Grey Shrike-thrush. Later in the recording, as the kangaroos wander through, you can hear a kangaroo 'bark', followed by some interesting 'chucking' sounds as another kangaroo bounds past (03:07). (Related recording: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20211205-rufous-whistler-and-kangaroo-dawn-mallee-country-early-summer.)

Recorded with respect upon the lands of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

2023.02.19 Birds And Kangaroos. Early Morning. Mallee Country. Late Summer.

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2023.02.19 Birds And Kangaroos. Early Morning. Mallee Country. Late Summer.

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