Favourite Australian Birdsong

by Andrew Skeoch

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1.	A Land of Birdsong (with Rufous Whistler) 05:26	buy track
2.	Grey Shrike-thrush 02:16	buy track
3.	Scarlet Robin 01:15	buy track
4.	Australian Magpies 03:13	buy track
5.	Western Gerygone 01:04	buy track
6.	Laughing Kookaburras 02:20	buy track
7.	Eastern Rosellas 01:04	buy track
8.	Redthroat 03:47	buy track
9.	Pied Honeyeaters and Rufous Songlark 02:23	buy track
10.	Chestnut-rumped Thornbills 01:56	buy track
11.	Pied Butcherbirds 03:18	buy track
12.	Variegated Fairy-wrens 01:03	buy track
13.	Singing Honeyeaters 01:37	buy track
14.	Zebra Finches 00:34	buy track
15.	Grey Whistler and Spangled Drongo 02:46	buy track
16.	Yellow Oriole 01:15	buy track
17.	Scarlet Honeyeater 02:19	buy track
18.	Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike 00:52	buy track
19.	Silvereye 03:10	buy track
20.	Bell Miners (Bellbirds) 03:57	buy track
21.	Golden Whistler 01:51	buy track
22.	Superb Lyrebird 04:14	buy track
23.	Large-billed Gerygone 02:21	buy track
24.	Mangrove Robin 01:16	buy track
25.	Willie Wagtail and Weebills 01:52	buy track
26.	Australian Ravens 01:33	buy track
27.	A Mysterious Land - Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters 05:24	buy track

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Australia is a land of unique and beautiful birdsong.

Researchers have recently discovered that songbirds actually evolved on the southern Gondwanan continent, before radiating out over millions of years to populate the rest of the world. Because of this, and further adaptations to Australia's harsh environment, Australian birds often display unique singing behaviours.

Some of the species we've presented here will be familiar voices from bush and garden; Kookaburras, Magpies, Grey Thrush, Willy Wagtail, Ravens, Rosellas and Fairy-wrens. The spectacular mimicry of the Lyrebird, the sublime duetting song of Pied Butcherbirds, and the ringing calls of Bellbirds are also renowned. Other voices may be far less well-known, but are equally pleasing; the Redthroat, Pied Honeyeaters, Gerygones and Mangrove Robin.

The album begins in bush woodlands, before moving to the arid inland of the continent. From the outback we visit the tropical north, the ancient rainforests of the eastern ranges, and finally coastal mangroves and riverine gorges.

We conclude with one of the most hauntingly beautiful of soundscapes; a hypnotic dawn chorus of Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters drifting across the heathlands.

This album presents both a journey around the continent, and a personal selection of our favourite songbirds.

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released June 15, 2001

Recording locations:
Track 1: Sundown NP, SE Qld
Track 2: Mootwingee NP, western NSW
Track 3-7: Warby Ranges, NE Vic
Track 8: Weetootla Gorge, Flinders Ranges, SA
Track 9: Oodnadatta Track SA
Track 10: Hattah Kulkyne National Park Vic
Track 11: Todd River, east of Alice Springs, NT
Track 12-14: Oodnadatta Track SA
Track 15-16: Nourlangie Rock, Kakadu NP, NT
Track 17-18: Yuragir NP, NE NSW
Track 19: near Bowen, central Qld
Track 20: near Eden, SE NSW
Track 21: Eungella NP, central Qld
Track 22: Myrtle Gully, near Healesville, Vic
Track 23-24: Hull River, near Mission Beach, far-north Qld
Track 25-26: Weetootla Gorge, Flinders Ranges, SA
Track 27: Little Desert, Vic

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Andrew Skeoch Australia

Andrew is a master wildlife field recordist. For over 30 years, he and partner / photographer Sarah Koschak have been documenting the voices of the world's ecosystems and wild creatures. The resulting recordings have been published through their dedicated label: Listening Earth ... more

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