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Ormiston Gorge, Full Moon, 3 a​.​m.

from Spirit of the Outback by Andrew Skeoch

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The pied butcherbird is famed for its song, and it is certainly among the most melodic of songbirds in the world. By day, male and female sing antiphonal duets so seamlessly interwoven that it is difficult to know which bird is singing. By night however, the male sings alone. And what a song...

However there's a lot more to this recording. It was made at Ormiston Gorge in the western MacDonnell ranges. It is a spectacular canyon, and at its entrance is a deep perenial waterhole, where the microphones captured this at 3 a.m. under a full moon.

You can hear nocturnal crickets calling from the reedbeds, a freetail bat echolocating overhead, desert tree frogs calling occasionally from the far end of the waterhole, and tiny grebes vocalising from the water. A Black-fronted Dotterel takes wing and gives a ratcheting songflight. At one point a Barn Owl calls while flying overhead, and there are also a few calls from roosting Hooded Robins.

So there's a whole arid land ecosystem to be heard in this recording, plus the ehoes off the landscape itself.

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from Spirit of the Outback, released June 10, 1999

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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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