Geoff Sample on the Marsh Warbler
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about birds inspired by their calls, songs and behaviour.
Marsh Warblers have long held a mystique for wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample ever since reading John Walpole-Bond's claim that the marsh warbler song reached a pitch 鈥榠ntensely passionate even to the verge of delirium鈥�. Not only that, but marsh warbler's are one of nature's great mimics. It's thought that individual birds can have a repertoire of around 80 different species, songs it encounters on its long migration across Europe and Africa. More recently Geoff worked with Francoise Dowsett Lemaire, who unlocked much of what we know today about the marsh warbler's song, alongside artist Hanna Tuulikki in a project involving the amazing song of this long-distance migrant.
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