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The Slender Blue-winged Grasshopper populates warm and dry open spaces. It is adapted to it´s life on the ground very well. During the several ectysis of the larvae the color and texture of the Slender Blue-winged Grasshopper imitates the characteristics of it´s habitat to camouflage.

The acoustic behavior of this grashopper is not very distinct. So it was a delight to capture the behavior of two rivalling males fighting it out in a kind of tournament.

The videoclip is very short an the soundquality is not the best but the situation is worth to show.

Yesterday i recorded a family Black Kite Milvus migrans as something unexpected happend…

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picture by Marcus Held

SINGWARTE - A Nature Sound Recording Camp took place from June 26-29 2008 in
Süplingen (Sachsen-Anhalt near Magdeburg, East Germany). Please find here a few
pictures and a recording of Locustella naevia:

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Yesterday i recorded a Common Swift Apus apus close to my window:

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Last year a Leipzig birder pointed me to 2 birds that sing atypical. They were optically identified as Sylvia borin and Sylvia atricapilla. A detailed article was published in the society´s periodical “Mitteilungen des Ornithologischen Vereins zu Leipzig e.V. #14″. Please find the recordings and sonagrams below:

Sylvia atricapilla, typical Song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical song

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Sylvia atricapilla, atypical Song

Sylvia atricapilla, atypical Song

Sylvia borin, typical song

Sylvia borin, atypical Song

Sylvia borin, atypical Song

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