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Bursting into song

Rarely-heard recordings of birdsong from the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar have been compiled and released by the British Library. The 127 Madagascar birds featured on its new CD include threatened species such as the long-tailed ground-roller and Benson’s rock thrush. Most of the bird recordings have never before been published. Among the unusual calls are the drumming sounds of a Madagascar snipe, the screeching alarm of the red-capped coua, and the “rat tle and whistle” duet of the white-throated oxylabes. The call of the red-shouldered vanga was recorded in 1997 on the occasion of the species’ first reported observation in the wild. The British Library Sound Archive compiled its CD with the environment group Conservation International which is heavily involved in projects aiming to conserve Madagascar’s unique biological legacy.

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