Bird Songs from the Tropics

Paul Schwartz - Bird Songs from the Tropics

This LP has the voices of 40 tropical American birds recorded in the fields, forests, lowlands and highlands of Venezuela.

From the liner notes:
A program intended to introduce the listener to some of the interesting bird voices of the Neotropics (the tropical regions of the New World) where there is a greater variety of bird life in proportion to size than any other region in the world and where the diversity of the sounds these birds produce is as great as the imagination itself.
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The recordings used in this program are taken from the extensive sound collection of the Instituto Neotropical. To obtain them Paul Schwartz, Technical Director of the Instituto Neotropical and Research Associate of the Laboratory of Ornithology of Cornell University, has travelled from one end of Venezuela to the other. Combining an ample knowledge and love of living birds and long experience in the field together with infinite patience, extreme care and the best recording equipment available, he has obtained recordings of the highest possible calibre. Equally painstaking efforts have gone into the reproduction of the recordings and the preparation of this disc so that the listener may enjoy sounds of a fidelity equal to that of nature itself.



I did my best to clean out the clicks and pops from my LP copy with Audacity. Many of the noticeable clicks and pops were removed, but there were some that Audacity could not remove. The LP starts out rough with surface noise prominent (on the 1st track) then surface noise is barely noticable throughout the rest of the LP.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Little Tinamou -- Blue-backed Conebill -- House Wren -- Bare-eyed Thrush -- Blue-gray Tanager -- Troupial {6:16}

2. Great Kiskadee -- Crested Spinetail -- Rufous-browed Pepper-Shrike -- Barred Antshrike -- Copper-rumped Hummingbird -- Great Antshrike {5:18}

3. Grayish Saltador -- Rufous-breasted Wren -- Lance-tailed Manakin {3:42}

4. Gilt-tailed Sapphire -- Rufous-tailed Antthrush {2:26}

5. Green Jay -- Black-winged Bellbird -- Masked Yellowthroat {3:57}

Side B

1. Scaled Dove -- White-tipped Dove -- Crested Oropendola -- Yellow-rumped Cacique -- Rufous-tailed Chachalaca {4:17}

2. Oriole Blackbird -- Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch -- Laughing Falcon {4:09}

3. Green-backed Sparrow -- Rufous-collared Sparrow -- Short-billed Marsh-Wren -- Rufous-and-white Wren -- Musician Wren {5:55}

4. Tropical Screech-Owl -- Pauraque -- White-tailed Nightjar -- Rufous Nightjar {4:04}

5. Spectacled Owl -- Little Nightjar -- Common Potoo {3:57}

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