An Interview with Dean McDonnell
03/16/24 • 90 min
A Wild Bird Acoustics interview with Dean Mc Donnell, an Irish birder and field recorder based in Co. Louth, Ireland. During the course of the interview, we discuss birding in the areas Dean has been recording at and he shares some wonderful audio of a wide range of species from the past few years...
00:00 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics
00:50 Interview with Special Guest: Dean McDonnell
01:29 Dean's Journey into Birding
02:29 Exploring Birding Habits and Techniques
08:29 The challenges of Sound Recording in Louth
09:53 The Fascination of Field Recording
11:04 Dean's Recording Equipment
12:45 Birding Locations and Habitats
39:19 Discussing the Sounds of Spring and Summer
41:04 The Intricacies of Birdsong
41:30 The song of Common Cuckoo's
42:59 Alarming birds and Sparrowhawk
45:14 The Sounds of the flood meadow and Eurasian Teal
54:24 The Unique sound of Hoverfly's!
01:12:02 The Song of the Skylark
01:18:20 Echolocation of the Soprano Pipistrelle
01:22:42 The Melody of the Song Thrush
A Wild Bird Acoustics interview with Dean Mc Donnell, an Irish birder and field recorder based in Co. Louth, Ireland. During the course of the interview, we discuss birding in the areas Dean has been recording at and he shares some wonderful audio of a wide range of species from the past few years...
00:00 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics
00:50 Interview with Special Guest: Dean McDonnell
01:29 Dean's Journey into Birding
02:29 Exploring Birding Habits and Techniques
08:29 The challenges of Sound Recording in Louth
09:53 The Fascination of Field Recording
11:04 Dean's Recording Equipment
12:45 Birding Locations and Habitats
39:19 Discussing the Sounds of Spring and Summer
41:04 The Intricacies of Birdsong
41:30 The song of Common Cuckoo's
42:59 Alarming birds and Sparrowhawk
45:14 The Sounds of the flood meadow and Eurasian Teal
54:24 The Unique sound of Hoverfly's!
01:12:02 The Song of the Skylark
01:18:20 Echolocation of the Soprano Pipistrelle
01:22:42 The Melody of the Song Thrush
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The Quest for Common Pochard
In this, the seventh episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, we follow my quest to record an elusive duck species, Common Pochard. My eventual aim was to field record the species remarkable courtship display, you can follow that journey in the first section of this podcast. Apart from discussing the challenges of locating and recording this elusive species, I share several other bird recordings captured during these outings, such as the amazing calls of Northern Goshawk, a displaying Little Grebe, singing Goldcrest, and Eurasian Jay mimicking other species' calls.
Following this initial section, I will take you to the Stockholm Archipelago in late autumn, on a rather special day in November, when all the stars aligned and I managed some wonderful audio of some rather special Swedish bird species....
00:20 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics
00:35 The Quest for Common Pochard
01:22 The Challenges of locating breeding Common Pochard
03:40 The final piece of the Jigsaw; Common Pochard's Courtship Display
04:55 Another Journey to Norra Djurgarden
05:06 The Encounter with Common Pochard
06:40 Other Encounters: Coot and Little Grebe
08:43 The Successful Recording of Common Pochard
23:04 A Surprise Encounter with Northern Goshawk
31:16 The Final Recordings and Reflections
32:20 Preview of the Next Episode: Autumn in Landsort
33:20 The Field Magazine: A Day in Landsort
33:40 The Search for Spotted Nutcracker
34:24 Encounters with Bohemian Waxwing and Northern Bullfinch
47:26 Success! An audio recording of Spotted Nutcracker...
53:08 Conclusion and Call to Action
Next Episode
The Liquid Strophes of late Spring
In this, the tenth episode, you shall experience the diurnal and nocturnal auditory soundscape of the wonderful avian sounds of Sweden.
First up, a sound magazine concerning the incredible diurnal sounds of late Spring, as the landscape is filled with the chimes of birds, the various displays of species intent on breeding and setting up territory, here in Scandinavia. Experience the wonder of a landscape filled with bird song.
Secondly, I will return to early Spring and share the secrets of the hidden world of nocturnal migration. In the magazine you will hear the calls of migrant birds in the dead of night. These sounds are a hidden library of often long travelling species, intent on returning to the breeding grounds in order to meet future mates and reproduce, an instinct which see's our night skies filled with the calls of these avian travellers each year, a testament to the incredible resilience of nature and the inherrent drive to return to the breeding grounds, each calender year. Experience how nocturnal, automative recording opens up such a hiiden world to our often oblivious ears...
Wild Bird Acoustics - An Interview with Dean McDonnell
Transcript
You're all very welcome to wild bird acoustics. I'm your host, Alan Dalton, and I'll be taking you on a journey into sound.
Now welcome back to wild bird acoustics, everybody. We have a very special episode for you this week. And once again, we will be conducting an interview with a very special guest on this occasion all the way from Ireland. And it was delightful to be able to have a good chat with Dean McDonnell during the week.
And it was an incredibly interesting interview on, I
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