The Corvid Chorus ...with bonus shriek!
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s I was walking through Vondelpark on the way to Havenstraat I heard a very strange shriek. I identified where it was coming from and recorded a small clip including the shriek and the clicking.
The Corvid Chorus - with bonus shriek! from Loki Verloren on Vimeo.
It is a murder chorus! Murder being plural for crow, of course!
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.
"I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind."
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Unless they're rooks, in which case it would be a parliamentary chorus. But then, murder parliament, what's the difference?
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