Running Time:

72 min

Release Date:

September 2008

Recording Location:

Thung Salaeng Luang National Park, northern Thailand

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An exotic diversity of birdsong fills an open pine meadow in Northern Thailand.

Beginning very quietly in the pre-dawn, you will hear the last nightjars and owls calling distantly. Gradually the dawn chorus begins, washing over the landscape like an approaching wave. Francolins, cuckoo-shrikes, minivets, barbets, woodpeckers, bulbulls, prinias and many more may be heard calling near and far.

A breeze whispers in the pines, and to conclude, you'll hear the animated chattering of Chestnut-headed Bee-eaters as they swoop for insects in the golden light of late afternoon.

This is a dynamic recording that will transport you to a unique habitat rich in birdlife.

Audio sample of this album

1.

Nightjars and Owls in the Predawn

6.42

2.

Meadow Awakening with Birdsong

17.05

3.

Rufous Woodpeckers

16.11

4.

First Wind in the Pines

16.17

5.

Late Afternoon with Chestnut-headed Bee-eaters

15.44

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Mp3:

Mp3 is a universal audio format, playable on iPods, computers, media players and mobile phones.

Mp3 is a compressed format, allowing smaller filesizes, offering faster download times and requiring less storage space on players, but at some expense to the audio quality. Many listeners can't really hear the difference between mp3 and full CD-quality audio, and hence its convenience has lead to it becoming the default option for audio.

Our albums are generally encoded at around 256kbps (sometimes with VBR), balancing optimal audio quality without blowing out filesizes excessively. We encode using the Fraunhoffer algorithm, which preserves more detail in the human audible range than the lame encoder.

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FLAC is a high-quality audio format, allowing CD-resolution audio. It is ideal if you wish to burn your files to a CDR, or listen over a high resolution audio system. However files usually require special decoding by the user before playing or burning to disc.

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a LOSSLESS compressed audio format. This means that it preserves the full audio quality of a CD, but optimises the filesize for downloading. Typically, file sizes of around 60% are achieved without any degradation or loss of audio quality from the source files at the CD standard of 16bit/44.1kHz.

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In addition, you'll need to know what to do with the files once you've downloaded them. In most cases you'll want to decode the files to wav or aiff, either to import into programs like iTunes, or burn to CDR. Some programs will play flac files natively.

There is a lot of information about flac online (eg: http://flac.sourceforge.net/)