Unlikely Duets: Extremes of Bird Sound

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The highs and lows of bird sound.

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0:00.0	This is Bird Note. The vocal range of birds is immense. To capture that breath, we've composed two
0:06.0	unlikely duets from species that never sing together in the wild. First, a cassowary of Australia, and a Brazilian hummingbird, the Black Jackobin. The Brazilian hummingbird is the highest pitched bird.
0:37.0	The Cassowary, the lowest, reaching down to 24hertz, the bottom of the human range of hearing. Now the faint voiced grasshopper sparrow and the white bellbird. I'm The white bellbird has the loudest call in the world according to sound. We're teaming up with Bird Note to make an immersive
1:32.0	70 minute virtual event about the sound of birds.
1:36.3	More info at birdnote.org. Now.

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