{"id":874,"date":"2010-02-05T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2010-02-21T12:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:57:43","slug":"new-zealand-portage-bay-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/new-zealand-portage-bay-birdsong\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Portage Bay Birdsong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portage Bay on the Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island, New Zealand.<\/p><\/div>\n

This will be the first of several posts that highlight some interesting sounds that I gathered from the South Island of New Zealand, from December 2009 to January 2010. Big thanks to Tim Prebble<\/a> and others for offering advice!<\/p>\n

I walked the 71km Queen Charlotte Track<\/a> with my photo gear and my beat-up Zoom H2<\/a>, and gathered quite a bit of sound over the 3.5 days I spent hiking. The last morning I awoke early to this unusual dawn chorus of birds…the more I listen to it, it might just be a handful of birds or even just one loud one, with echos coming off the walls of the surrounding hills. It sounded synthesized to me, like an ambient song. Give it a listen below, with some occasional post-rain water drips falling from the trees. (While this is unprocessed, I applied some spectral processing<\/a> to it and it sounded like it came out of Avatar<\/a><\/em>…may share that later on…)<\/p>\n

[UPDATE<\/span>: Reader Tom Williams<\/a> from Devon, UK correctly identified this as the call of the tui<\/a>. Thanks, Tom!]<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Dawn Chorus at Portage Bay<\/a> by noisejockey<\/a>
\n[Zoom H2 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be the first of several posts that highlight some interesting sounds that I gathered from the South Island of New Zealand, from December 2009 to January 2010. Big thanks to Tim Prebble and others for offering advice! I walked the 71km Queen Charlotte Track with my photo gear and my beat-up Zoom H2, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,134,4],"tags":[128,143,9,10,92,145,144,321,18,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}