ML646602573
Contributor
Thomas Gibson Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Vardø--Hornøya
Finnmark, Norway
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation; Preening, scratching, or bathing
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Not specified
Media notes
In this recording you can hear the din of the sebird colony, a Shag making it's strange gutteral clucking noises, and the at 11 seconds in the unmistakable moist ejection and thump of a rectum full of fish guts being expelled directly over my sound recorder with shocking accuracy. This caused the sound files from that day to corrupt with many breaks in the audio and strange noises, but at least it was recorded for posterity. The sound recorder was not damaged and the rich sweet fishy musky smell of the Shag's guano was really quite a pleasant smell, not dissimilar to otter spraint.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 741.88 KB