I can't imagine living in a place without these sounds. You can't start your morning without a magpie call: it's more important than coffee

@WildAmbience

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a great start to the day!

@stevie65able

Жыл бұрын

Almost 😅…

@bussieboy7064

Жыл бұрын

It’s very sad listening to a Mudlark instead

@coco-cliveasmrgenealogy6171

11 ай бұрын

Yep, every morning I get them calling for feeding time. Different sounds they make and grunting sounds. Babies make a crying sounds around the parent

@chriswatson1698

8 ай бұрын

I love them on moonlit nights. Crisp and clear close up, getting softer and more muffled further away.

I’m an Aussie living overseas and listening to these to help with my homesickness

One day Australia, you and I are going to meet - and its going to be amazing.

😂😂 I love magpie song, it works its way into your soul at a very young age and stays there, an indelible imprint forever. I wanted to share magpie song with a friend overseas who has never heard it before. I played this near my open lounge room window just now, and set off the maggies resident in the park across the road! They've even come over to find the friend they heard 🖤🤍

of all sounds to relax me, the call of the australian magpie just does something to my soul. I am from Canada but have travelled to Australia a number of times to visit family. It just makes me at peace

@Emma-ch1lj

4 ай бұрын

Same. I'm from the UK but this is just music to my ears.

Magpies singing as I wake up. My Grandma presenting me with a hot plate of French Toast and a Hot Chocolate. Jesus, those were the days man.

I am sending this recorded sound of Magpie song to my friend in Europe. While REAL Magpies are singing in my garden. Hard to tell which is which. Priceless.

One of the greatest birds I've met. The spirit of Australian coastlands.

@AlexCimmaronBS

3 жыл бұрын

And highlands :)

@revert6417

3 жыл бұрын

And the wheelie bin.

@juanlui284

2 жыл бұрын

...and inlands 👍

@listohan

2 жыл бұрын

And increasingly the older city suburbs that actually have trees.

I live in New Zealand, in a village called Orewa which has a beautiful eastuary which is the centerpiece of this beautiful place. I emigrated from South Africa in 2019 and was an avid birdwatcher there. The first time I heard the Magpies I was elated. I never knew what was making that liquid sound. We have resident Magpies just across from Kingsway school. They live in Blue Gum trees and feed on the ground in the many reserves. I have also spotted resident birds in Whangaporoa. A wonderful capture of thr sound. Thank you.

@captainpinky8307

3 жыл бұрын

yeah we got em in NZ too, but they seem to sound different in Australia.

@equestanton1017

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen Orewa in pictures it's lovely. I didn't even know you got blue gum trees in NZ. Paul I know exactly what you mean. Same happened to me but in Australia. I had never heard them before and I went to stay with my brother for a few weeks after he emigrated there from ZA. I was sleeping in a back room. First night tired and very jet-lagged from a long flight from London where I lived then, plus a very long self-drive from Sydney to his place. This's exactly what I heard first thing, crack of dawn in the morning, first night ever in Australia...you can imagine. I could hardly believe my ears, like I was having some sort of psychosis. In my sleepy state I managed to claw myself through the bedding to the window and peer out the curtain into the light to try and see what the hell was going on out there. There was nothing, nothing in sight. But the sound was right there like a ghost. I stared blurry eyed for ages listening completely in awe till flopping back to sleep. The sound carried on lulling me straight back into a deep sleep. When I did eventually wake up rather very much later the sound was gone. So I wasn't entirely sure it had even been real. Just so extremely other worldly. I rushed out back to see if there was any clue and my brother asked me what I was looking for. LOL. Listen at 4:49 - 4 50 ...utterly and insanely enchanting phrase, pitch perfect! Truly is an unbelievable wondrous bird song. Im almost sure though I don't know, but could every bird have its own song that it also changes, there is that gurgling loveliness which seems to be a chorus of sorts in between that they all do...... I'm enchanted by all bird song even the odd ones, some make me laugh, some even cry, some are just charming. I think the only other bird song that has ever come close to this in sheer magnificence is this tiny nightingale I once heard. Least I believe it was a nightingale, I never could ID it. Long story but we lived behind a convent in Uccle Brussels separated by an ancient beech forest, magnificent tall massive straight trees. Anyway I sat on the terrace of my Villa DuBois all alone (my small family, one dog and a cat not yet made the move) looking across the lawn into the forest in the early evening contemplating life, my new life on the continent. Suddenly this song started. Long after all the birds has stopped. Just its song in an otherwise dead silent darkening evening. Loud, clear like liquid gold. It went on and on and on each phrase getting more and more elaborate different, unique and utterly spell binding. As though it was composing the song straight out of it's little head, no falter. Never heard anything like it. I couldn't believe a tiny little song bird (they all were from what I had seen) could produce such a magnificent repertoire and keep it up for so very long. Same effect on me as these magpies. Life is just so much more Wonderfull because of birds hey? It really is. Parting shot ....Coucals. The only bird song to make me instantly cry. Do you remember hearing and occasionally even seeing those in SA? Rain birds. You can imagine my surprise and joy to hear them in Hong Kong, I actually cried. Truly I had big tears streaming down my face. I was a bit fragile I must admit but Hong Kong for the newly arrived is something else. I lived in an apartment in the busiest part of Kowloon for a year till I luckily found a place in the middle of the jungle and forest up a winding mountain track, little cottage no-one around for miles, truly unique for HK. First day there kid you not Coucals begin courting and singing to one another. Yah greater Coucals. I didn't even know yet you got them in Asia!! The world is even more of a wondrous place with birds and can be very lonely without. Hope you're still enjoying New Zealand. By all accounts it sounds a wonderful place. Lucky lucky lucky.

@TainuiaKid1973

2 жыл бұрын

Paul, I hope you’ve had a chance to listen to the Tuis. They have two vocal chords. There is a Department of Conservation campsite next to an inland island (i.e. fenced off from predators) on the western side of Northland. I camped there one night and awoke to the magnificent sounds of the native birds in a full chorus. Magnificent! There are walking tracks through the forest

This makes me so homesick.

I'm from the US and between watching Taylah Rose, Bondi Vet and Bondi Rescue, it has perplexed me what these birds sounds were. They are beautiful and I would love to hear them in person some day! I've never heard anything so distinct and with such a unique call! Glad I finally figured it out. 😁

Beautiful sounds.. you'd think the crows would lift their game. 😁 I'm on their like list here, and am often visited and serenaded, never swooped.. I really love these birds.

Love these birds

SO beautiful - these are the Songs of our Planet - how we can so mindlessly destroy the Habitats of Creatures that fuel our Souls weakens my Heart everyday. I am grateful for the Person who goes out and patiently records these magnificent Sounds before they disappear. Sadly they must serve as proof to future Generations that the World was once a Magical Place.

I stayed in Malaysia my whole life, and we only had the full black crows over here. And when I visited Melbourne, Australia for the first time and seeing these birds, i was like "damnnnnn even their crows are prettier than ours!"

@jewfinigan863

Жыл бұрын

Yo we have the usual crows as well, you can buy them at woolies

The sound of morning.

@antrimlariot2386

Жыл бұрын

Mourning too. Sometimes. Depends on song.

Its so funny one of my cats never stayed interested in those long Cat TV videos of birds and squirrels past her kitten stage but as soon as I played these she's running to the windows to find the birds she knows and loves from real life!

Reminds me of waking up at 7 in the freezing cold on camps.

@WildAmbience

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, such an evocative sound of camping in the Aussie bush!

I really miss that sound in Australia Melbourne I hear it everyday and It was quiet when I was in the park where my aunt's house is there and I always write in the park when I hear magpies and other birds are singing

I hear this in nz too georgeous morning wake up

The sound of home ❤️

So beautiful

Informative clip

I have a family of 4, come visit me many times In one day and everyday for their gourmet all day buffet. And I am in a high rise building. Looool

Our magpies are friendly we feed them fruit every morning now every morning they come out for food😂

What a strange sound. It's almost like what you would hear in a movie or a crazy dream. Not what I was expecting. Kinda cool though.

BTW.. That call in the first 30 secs is basically their "hello human"/"target acquired" call.

@WildAmbience

2 жыл бұрын

😅

Every afternoon

Beautiful song. Did you know they can also mimick other birds? Have you ever had the chance to record one mimicking?

@WildAmbience

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't recorded it myself yet, but have heard it a couple of times.

@xlunally

2 жыл бұрын

@@WildAmbience it's really amazing isn't it! I once heard one copying a dog's bark, I couldn't believe it

@TainuiaKid1973

2 жыл бұрын

@@xlunally if taught from a young age they you can train them to talk

They sound funny

What is the bird at 8:31? Anyone know?

@WildAmbience

2 жыл бұрын

There's a Pied Currawong calling there

@shauteo8630

2 жыл бұрын

I thought that was it! Thanks so much.

what is the bird at 1:53?

@WildAmbience

2 жыл бұрын

That one is a Pied Currawong

The bird that has killed more people in Australia in the last decade (mostly due to human stupidity) than snakes. Ubiquitous. Sound like a harmonica, and sometimes are quite friendly. This is the animal Australians seem to fear the most.

@chillimocha

2 жыл бұрын

What rubbish. Deaths from magpies swooping is very rare. You could count on one hand how many deaths there have been over the years.

@antrimlariot2386

Жыл бұрын

I think that's bit of an urban myth that doesn't stand. Australians love magpies. I think we respect them and give them room.

@TheMarcy000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah nah pretty sure noone has every been killed by a magpie, cool story though 😆

@redundantideas

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMarcy000 At least three people have died where magpies have been involved, 2 of them in the last 3 years. I mean, you could have googled it yourself, though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_attacks_in_Australia#Magpies

@Mrc172

10 ай бұрын

Malarkey.

We have magpies in Ireland . They make the ugliest sounds of any birds I know . We are sorely in need of their Aussie cousins to teach ours to sing ..

@WildAmbience

7 ай бұрын

😅