Great Cormorant colony at the Baltic Sea

Maybe this was the sound of dinosaurs? The strange noise at seabird colonies have always an ancient touch. Here, the sound recorder was placed into a colony of Great Cormorants. Their deep, guttural calls shape this soundscape.

The sounds of birds, mammals, amphibians, insects or anything that is human-related are annotated in the spectrogram below and include:

Great Cormorant – Kormoran – Phalacrocorax carbo

Great Tit – Kohlmeise – Parus major

Blue Tit – Blaumeise – Cyanistes caeruleus

Grey Heron – Graureiher – Ardea cinerea

Eurasian Nuthatch – Kleiber – Sitta europaea

Hooded Crow – Nebelkrähe – Corvus corone

Common Raven – Kolkrabe – Corvus corax

European Herring Gull – Silbermöwe – Larus argentatus

Common Buzzard – Mäusebussard – Buteo buteo

Greater White-fronted Goose – Bläßgans – Anser albifrons

Eurasian Siskin – Erlenzeisig – Spinus spinus