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  2. ʻElepaio - Wikipedia

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    The ʻelepaio is the first native bird to sing in the morning and the last to stop singing at night; apart from whistled and chattering contact and alarm calls, it is probably best known for its song, from which derives the common name: a pleasant and rather loud warble which sounds like e-le-PAI-o or ele-PAI-o. It nests between January and June.

  3. Can't Tell a Wren from a Robin? Here Are Five Easy Ways to ...

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    4. Listen to Song Recordings in Your Spare Time. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library contains a multimedia archive with more than 800,000 audio recordings of birds. It's free to ...

  4. Cirrus Minor (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song is 5 minutes 18 seconds long. It was written by Roger Waters and performed by David Gilmour on vocals and guitar and Rick Wright on organ. The song has a hallucinogenic, pastoral quality, with prominent organ and bird sound effects, like those later that year featured on the Ummagumma track "Grantchester Meadows".

  5. How Judy Garland Made 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ...

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    The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis.It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...

  6. Edward Avis - Wikipedia

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    These melodies were a feature of his lecture last night. Stereopticon pictures were thrown on the screen, Mr Avis would whistle bird songs and one could almost imagine it was summer. Cover of a 1927 LP. Avis was a careful imitator of birds and he often performed before academic audiences. He also included a mix of his mimicry with the violin. [3]

  7. List of jazz contrafacts - Wikipedia

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    A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...

  8. Lyrebird makes amazing laser sounds - AOL

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    Its laser noise may sound threatening, but its beautiful tail and pleasant chirping show it means no harm. Wen Hao Lee told StoryFul that the "lyrebird was the most amazing songbird I had ever ...

  9. Bird vocalization - Wikipedia

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    This was adopted by early researchers [127] including C.E.G. Bailey who demonstrated its use for studying bird song in 1950. [128] The use of spectrograms to visualize bird song was then adopted by Donald J. Borror [129] and developed further by others including W. H. Thorpe. [130] [131] These visual representations are also called sonograms or ...