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A new topic in this Flora & Fauna forum: Nature Sounds of Lamma (working title)
Ever wondered what animal is behind those loud. strange noises you hear during the day or, more annoyingly, at night.

Alan writes "A lot of creatures here are very audible, but hard to locate visually. If we could ID them by their calls at least we would know what to look for -- many times I don't know if it's an insect, frog or a bird."

Let's start a little community project, collecting Lamma's nature sounds, obviously mostly mostly animals, but not necessarily limited to them. How about the sound of a soothing sea breeze, the fury of a typhoon, a rooftop party, frolicking at the beach, etc.

Anybody is welcome to send me short sound files in any popular sound file format (mpeg, wav, mid, etc.) and I'll find a prominent place on this website to catalogue and make them available for everybody with a speaker on their PC or Mac. Sounds good?

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How about the sound of tables been thrown into the sea and stools getting kicked over and taps left running at 4am. :roll: not to mention drunken rantings!

Have to say did not sleep well last night. I am not the one who was making the noise either I am the one been kept awake by it :x


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Yes, why not! Did you record the sounds, even though they're not really nature sounds? :D

Drunken rantings are so common, very easy to record as long as the "recorderer" is not equally drunk. But tables thrown into the seas seems to be a much rarer sound around Lamma and could be classified as a really exotic sound.

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Sound files can get pretty big. Wave is uncompressed, if you convert it to MP3 you could get 6 seconds at 128kb rate, or 12 at 64 and be under the attachment limit of 100kb.

I think most audio apps will convert to MP3.
Just pay attention to the bitrate: higher rate= higher quality and larger size.
You can use, eg BeSweet or find other tools at http://www.mp3-converter.com/

I've enabled MP3s to be attached, as this one. Just select and attach like an image. Size limit 100kb as for images.


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Thanks, Alan. I found BeSweet a bit confusing for my un-savvy brain, but somthing else called Switch I found relatively simple to use.

Let's try this:
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Great - hope we can start up some wildlife sound recordings to go with the photos. Frog 'n' cuckoo season is just around the corner

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Let's try again - a snatch from one of the magpie robins coming into song at the moment. With the 100kb limit, the quality is not too good - only 48kbps. Any way of getting better quality larger files on to the site? For example, with photos, you can get round the K100 limit by connecting to a site like flickr and access larger files. Is this possible in the same way with sound files?

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Thanks for all the tips. What I guess we need is not really a forum but an archive. There are only 5 species of frog to record, but maybe a hundred or so different birds, so it might be quite large.

Meanwhile, the Chinese francolins are in full voice on the hillsides. I've borrowed an image from Harry Li from an earlier page on this thread last summer. Here's a recording from Tuesday:

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Anyone noticed the savannah nightjars recently? They are resident birds, but only call during spring, usually just before dark. They have been calling for a week or two now - they have a strange shrill "schweep" call - I'll try to get a recording but so far have been unsuccessful.

However, the magpie robins have also evidently noticed the savannah nightjar's call. The males are getting pretty jiggy at the moment and have prominent and varied calls to wow the females and put fellow males to shame. This one was mimicking the nightjar's call and incorporating it into its own repertoire. After each six note phrase, the nightjar call is inserted (sorry those domestic pigeons in the foreground wouldn't shut up):


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You'd have to be deaf not to hear the Indian koels calling during April and May.

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