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BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.

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Manorina melanophrys

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Behaviour

"The bell minor bird (Manorina melanophrys) heard around Melbourne, with it's persitent bell-like ing, always sounding at approximately the same pitch (E♮-F♮-F#), gives rise to a soundscape as dense as taht created by cicadas, but different in that it maintains a certain soatial perspective; for the bird sounds issue from recognizable points, unlike the dstridulations of the cicvadas, which create a continual presence, seemingly without foreground or background."

Source: Schafer, R. Murray (1977). Our Sonic Environment and The Soundscape: the tuning of the World.

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