{"id":44,"date":"2025-05-23T02:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/in-tune-with-nature-expert-sounds-out-all-of-irelands-bird-species\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:25:21","slug":"in-tune-with-nature-expert-sounds-out-all-of-irelands-bird-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/in-tune-with-nature-expert-sounds-out-all-of-irelands-bird-species\/","title":{"rendered":"In tune with nature: expert sounds out all of Ireland&#039;s bird species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the shows Ronayne, who was diagnosed with a form of autism as an adult, presents the story of his life and how nature is woven through it. <\/p>\n<p>He also plays audio of warbles, tweets, trills, screeches and chirps, and mystery sounds, inviting the audience to guess the origin.<\/p>\n<p>Some clips show birds mimicking other animals like dogs, people and other bird species.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some species in my collection can mimic 30 to 40 other species in their song,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Laughter is common at his talks, but also tears and grief as listeners learn of Ireland&#8217;s endangered birdlife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sonic diversity&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ronayne regularly holds &#8220;dawn chorus&#8221; walks, bringing small groups into silent forests far from road noise to experience the birdlife waking up. <\/p>\n<p>A gradually building cacophony of sound, the dawn chorus is &#8220;a reflection of the health of a given environment&#8221;, he told AFP in an old woodland near his home while waiting for sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more sonically diverse it is, the healthier the habitat is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>After unpacking his audio recorder, parabolic microphone and tripod, he quickly identified the melodies of song thrushes, robins, blackbirds, goldcrests and others as they greeted the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chiffchaff! 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There&#8217;s a grey wagtail!&#8221; he exclaimed, head twitching toward each sound in the lifting gloom.<\/p>\n<p>Ronayne also hides recorders for weeks and even months in remote untouched places where birds congregate.<\/p>\n<p>On Ballycotton beach near Cobh, migrating birds swirled overhead before settling on an adjacent lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ronayne carefully placed a waterproof recorder &#8212; able to run for up two weeks &#8212; in grass by the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobh (Ireland) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    On a mission to record all of Ireland&#8217;s bird species, many of which are dying out, Irishman Sean Ronayne calls his unique audio archive a tool to both raise alarm and bring hope.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 04:25<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 04:24<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 4 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"7cb5a1475074b2c1162036f4860104e0e4d1a3f1.jpg\" alt=\"Irish ornithologist Sean Ronayne is on a mission to record all of Ireland&#039;s bird songs, and says his unique audio archive can both raise alarm and bring hope\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}