CDNature Sounds of Australia
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Nature Sounds of Australia. (AHS 01) with 116-page booklet
including 83 colour photographs. Ninety tracks of sounds made by
Australia's native animals, from the lyrebird to the dingo, the
giant bullfrog to the horn-eyed ghost crab. The ninety tracks
encompass Mammals (1-9), Birds (10-33), Frogs (34-49), Crickets
(50-54), Katydids (55-79), Cicadas (80-88), An ultrasonic walk in
Kings Park, Perth (89) and Crustaceans (90).
* Mammals: Tasmanian devil, yellow-bellied glider, sugar glider,
koala, wombat, grey-headed flying-fox, dingo, Australian
fur-seal.
* Birds: emu, little penguin, little-mantled sooty albatross,
chestnut teal, red goshawk, Tasmanian native hen, red-collared
lorikeet, gang-gang cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo, common
koel, southern boobook owl, barking owl, laughing kookaburra,
superb lyrebird, Eastern whipbird, crested bellbird,
purple-crowned fairy wren, noisy friarbird, Australian magpie,
pied currawong, satin bowerbird, Australian raven.
* Frogs: giant bullfrog, bullfrog, brown frog, spotted marsh
frog, Haswell's froglet, toadlet, Australian burrowing frog,
Andersson's toadlet, Peron's tree frog, spotted marsh frog,
Lesueur's frog, Ewing's tree frog, Victorian smooth froglet, Blue
Mountains tree frog, leaf-green tree frog, green and golden bell
frog.
* Crickets: New Guinea rainforest cricket, striped ground
cricket, striped-winged bark cricket, sordid bark cricket,
raincloud forest cricket, black field cricket, Oceanic field
cricket, diminutive ground cricket, confusing field cricket,
inland field cricket, valley dwarf cricket, new striped dwarf
cricket, mimetic bush cricket, dark night mole cricket, slender
tree cricket, and Lea's tree cricket.
* Katydids: whitish meadow katydid, striped meadow katydid, Upolu
meadow katydid, mimicing snout-nosed katydid, colourful Gondwanan
katydid, black-footed Gondwanan katydid, fierce predaceous
katydid, Kangaroo Island tiny katydid, loud green shield-backed
katydid, similar balloon-winged katydid, long-horned false leaf
katydid, and many others.
* Cicadas: examples of general species-specific songs, typical
modulated songs, continuous songs, the flying singers, dusk
singers, wing clapping, the larger aggregating cicadas, and an
evening chorus from Kin Kin Creek (south Queensland).
* Crustaceans: horn-eyed ghost crab and golden ghost crab.
The disc and booklet were edited by Dr David Rentz, Curator of
Orthopteroid Insects in the Australian National Insect
Collection, CSIRO Division of Entomology, with contributions by
Dr W. Bailey (University of Western Australia), Dr D. Gwynne
(University of Toronto), Dr M. Littlejohn (University of
Melbourne), Drs D. and P. Maitland (University of the
Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Mr M. Moulds
(Australian Museum), and Dr D. Young (University of Melbourne).
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